As a 5-year old boy in the Mexican border town of Mexicali, Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa sold food to truckers at gas stations to help his family. As a teenager, he jumped the border fence to join family members in the U.S. Quiñones worked without documents as a cotton picker and other hardworking jobs. Quiñones worked his way through school, learned English, and attended some of the best colleges in the nation. Today, he is an internationally renowned neurosurgeon at a top medical institution. Dr. Quiñones-Hinojosa talks about his odyssey, his medical profession, and the quest by today’s young Dreamers.
Guest: Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, Professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology, Director of Pituitary Tumor Center, The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, http://doctorqmd.com/.
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