BIOGRAPHY
Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, M.D.
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology,Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Medicine
The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center Department
of Neurosurgery
Baltimore, MD
With a dream to find a cure for brain cancer, Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa is an associate professor of neurosurgery and oncology at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, Maryland. He serves as the director of the Brain Tumor Surgery Program at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Campus.
Dr. Quiñones-Hinojosa is an expert in treating intradural spinal tumors, as well as brain stem and eloquent brain tumors in adults with the use of
neurophysiological monitoring during surgery. He further specializes in the treatment of patients with pituitary tumors using a transphenoidal endonasal approach with surgical navigation and endoscopic techniques.
Most recently, Dr. Quiñones-Hinojosa was honored with a grant from
the National Institute of Health for his work with stem cells and cancer.
His awards include a $450,000 Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Physician-Scientist Early Career Award, and he was named one
of the 100 most influential Hispanics in 2008. Dr. Quiñones-Hinojosa
also was recognized for leadership in addressing inequities minorities face in medical education and health care with the Nickens Faculty Fellowship award from the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Dr. Quiñones-Hinojosa received a medical degree from Harvard University, where he graduated cum laude. He went on to complete his residency in neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco, where he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in developmental and stem cell biology.
