Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, M.D.

Introduction

"Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, M.D., received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in Boston, where he 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 the program of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology. Dr. Quiñones-Hinojosa has been honored with the American Association of Neurological Surgeons Ronald Bittner Award, as well as multiple teaching awards.

Now an Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Director of the Brain Tumor Program at The Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, Dr. Quiñones-Hinojosa focuses on the surgical treatment of primary and metastatic brain tumors, with emphasis on intraoperative motor and speech mapping. He is an expert in treating intradural spinal tumors, brain stem and eloquent brain tumors in adults with the use of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring.

Dr. Quiñones-Hinojosa also has expertise based on his extensive clinical experience in the treatment of patients with pituitary tumors using a trans-sphenoidal 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. Quiñones-Hinojosa conducts numerous research efforts on elucidating the role of stem cells in the origin of brain tumors, and the potential role stem cells can have in fighting brain cancer and subsequently regaining neurological function. He has published multiple studies in brain and spinal cord tumors, as well as stem cell biology".