Our American Dream: Top Brain Surgeon Was Once Migrant Farm Worker

Feb. 25, 2010: BALTIMORE, MD- Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, Nero Surgeon at Johns Hopkins University. Photos of him one morning going from office to surgery. (Photography by Maximilan Franz/The Daily Record)

Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa pictured inside the camper he slept in while working as a migrant farmer in California. (Quiñones-Hinojosa )

Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa speaks at graduation from Harvard University. (Quiñones-Hinojosa )

Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa at age four. (Quiñones-Hinojosa )

Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa and his family.  (Quiñones-Hinojosa)

Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa embraces his mother in celebration of his graduation from Harvard University. (Quiñones-Hinojosa )

Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa working as a welder. (Quiñones-Hinojosa )

Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa pictured with his mother, father, brother during graduation in Mexico in 1986.  (Quiñones-Hinojosa )