[UCM LIST: Healthprofadvising-l] FREE Event "From Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon" Speaker at Delta College

[Erica Robbins]

"From Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon"

Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa

Internationally Recognized Brain Surgeon-Johns Hopkins University

Coming to Delta College

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Atherton Auditorium

Delta College

Presentation 

3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Book Signing 

4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

FREE ADMISSION

In his new powerful book, "Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon," Dr. Quinones tells his story of an illegal immigrant from Mexico. After years of work as a farm worker, he saved up enough money to eventually become a US citizen, and decided to attend San Joaquin Delta College.  Today, he is known as Dr. Q, an internationally renowned neurosurgeon and neuroscientist who leads cutting-edge research to cure brain cancer and performs 250 brain tumor surgeries a year at Johns Hopkins University. But not too long ago, he was Freddy, a nineteen-year-old undocumented migrant worker toiling in the tomato fields of Central California. Dr. Q will share his amazing life story - from his impoverished childhood in the tiny village of Palaco, Mexico, to his harrowing border crossing and his transformation from illegal immigrant to American citizen and gifted student at the University of California at Berkeley and at Harvard Medical School. Packed with adventure and adversity, including a few terrifying brushes with death, this story is a testament to persistence, hard work, the power of hope and imagination, and the pursuit of excellence. It is also a story about the importance of family, of mentors, of giving people a chance, and how education can change lives.

 

Copies of Dr. Quiñones-Hinojosa's book will be available to purchase at the event

 

For additional information contact 

Diana Slawson at 209-954-5027

San Joaquin Delta College, 5151 Pacific Avenue, Stockton, CA 95207

 

 

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