69th ANNUAL MEETING
APRIL 17-21, 2012
San Jose, California
General Session I
Keynote Address
Wednesday, April 18th
D. Ralph Millard, Jr., MD Lectureship
Sponsored by The Millard Society
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland
Goal:
To focus on the role of perseverance and team work in achieving excellence in our work with individuals with cleft and craniofacial conditions.
Objective:
Attendees will be able to describe the experience of health care from the perspective of an eminent neurosurgeon (who was once an immigrant farm worker), and explain the role of effort and team work in achieving excellence in clinical and scholarly work.
Session Chair:
Howard M. Saal, MD
Session Co-Chair:
Helen Sharp, PhD
Wednesday, March 17th
9:00am
Topic TBA
Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa, MD
Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa was an illegal immigrant from Mexico, who after years of work as a farm worker, saved up enough money to eventually become a US citizen. His perseverance took him to Harvard where he received his medical degree, and graduated with honors. He then completed his residency in neurosurgery at the University of California, San Francisco, where he also completed a postdoctoral fellowship in developmental and stem cell biology.
Now an assistant professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Quiñones serves as the Director of the brain tumor program at the Johns Hopkins Bayview campus. He focuses on the surgical treatment of primary and metastatic brain tumors, with an emphasis on motor and speech mapping during surgery. He is expert in treating intradural spinal tumors as well as brainstem 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/or endoscopic techniques. He has a strong interest in treating patients with skull base tumors and the use of radiosurgery as an adjunct to the treatment of these lesions.
Dr. Quinones conducts numerous research efforts on elucidating the role of stem cells in the origin of brain tumors and the potential role stem cells can play in fighting brain cancer and regaining neurological function.