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But not too long ago, he was freddy, a nineteenyearold undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato fields of central california. Quinoneshinojosa has demonstrated the same abilities in his lifetime jumping over a fence to get into the united states, working his way through college and medical school and becoming one of the top brain surgeons in. He was the author of such prizewinning volumes as the changes of cain. Sanjay gupta interviews dr alfredo quinones hinojosa, a world renown brain surgeon at johns hopkins university. Alfredo quinoneshinojosas life is so storied it could fill a book. Quinones has won seven emmy awards for his work on primetime, burning questions, and 2020. Altough alfredo quinones insist with colorful stories, that he has had a lot of luck to become dr. Whitepages people search is the most trusted directory. Qs areas of expertise can be found in the more than 50 book chapters he has authored, the several textbooks on neurosurgical techniques and stem cell biology he has penned, and in his riveting autobiography, becoming dr. Quinoneshinojosa seeks to improve patient safety, maximize the efficacy of current treatments and advance the development of new therapies for brain tumors.
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