Former illegal immigrant makes good as brain surgeon

Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa was a farm worker in the Central Valley before moving onto Berkeley, Harvard, UCSF and John Hopkins University.

He’s caught the attention of various media, but sometimes it doesn’t hurt to spread an interesting life story with a Valley connection.

• Here’s a link to an interview from the New York Times

I was a farm laborer in the San Joaquin Valley, seven days a week, sunup to sundown. I lived in this little trailer I paid $300 a month for. It didn’t take long to see that farm work was a dead end.

-Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

Here are links to other articles about Dr. Quinones-Hinojosa:

• Reader’s Digest
• Hopkins Medical Magazine– A magazine for the John Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Medical School.
  
• Johns Hopkins Medicine’s Bio of Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
  
• DOME, a Johns Hopkins’ In-house publication
  
• Science Daily
• NPR