From migrant worker to neuro surgeon

By Elizabeth Landau, CNN

(CNN) — Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa insists, “I just think of myself as a regular guy.”

It’s an incredible statement from someone who grew up in an impoverished Mexican village, illegally hopped the fence into California, attended Harvard Medical School and now works at Johns Hopkins Medicine as a neurosurgeon.

“I’ve never been one who declines adventure,” he says.

Early life

The oldest of five children, Quinones-Hinojosa as a child had nightmares that he had to save his mother and siblings from fires, floods, avalanches, says his memoir, “Becoming Dr. Q,” which he co-authored.

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