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Home » About » News & Events » Signature Events » Posey Leadership Award

Posey Leadership Award

Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa (Dr. Q)

 

Photo of Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-HinojosaThe 2022 recipient of the Austin College Posey Leadership Award and our very first Posey Leader-in-Residence is Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa (Dr. Q). Dr. Q serves as the chair of neurologic surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, in addition to his work as an author and prominent brain cancer researcher.

  • 2006 Howard Hughes Institute - Physician-Scientist Career Award
  • 2008 Olender Foundation - America's Role Model Award
  • 2015 Forbes, World's Most Creative Mexicans, and one of Mexico’s most brilliant minds in the world

As our Leader-In-Residence, Dr. Q has joined faculty, staff, and students in four virtual Zoom sessions throughout the year, November through March. Hosted by our faculty, the sessions have touched topics from getting in to Med School as a first-gen student, leadership, immigration, and what it’s like to be both a physician and a researcher.


On April 14, Dr. Q will be on campus in-person to receive the 2022 Austin College Posey Leadership Award in Wynne Chapel at an 11:00 a.m. convocation open to students, faculty, staff, alumni, and guests.

 

Nominate someone to be the 2023 Posey Leadership Award Recipient today!  Nominations are open  through April 18.

 

Campus-wide Convocation

Thursday, April 14, 11:00 a.m.

Wynne Chapel | Clifford J. Grum Sanctuary

 

In-Person Registration
Registration is not required for students, faculty, and staff
 
Livestream Registration is closed;
however the livestream can be accessed
on the Austin College YouTube channel.

About Dr. Q

Awards and Recognitions Expand
  • 2006 Howard Hughes Institute - Physician-Scientist Career Award
  • 2006 Association of American Medical Colleges - Herbert Nickens Award
  • 2006 American Society of Clinical Oncology Foundation - Career Development Award
  • 2006 American College of Surgeon - Franklin Martin Faculty Research Award
  • 2006 Johns Hopkins University - Passano Physician Scientist Award
  • 2007 Johns Hopkins Hospital - Department of Neurosurgery - Faculty Teaching Award (Richard J. Otenasek)
  • 2007 Robert Wood Johnson Award
  • 2007 Popular Science Magazine - Brilliant 10 Scientists Award
  • 2007 Baltimore Magazine - US Top Docs
  • 2008 Olender Foundation - America's Role Model Award
  • 2010 Science & Engineering Festival - Nifty Fifty Scientist
  • 2011 Baltimore Magazine - Baltimore Top Docs
  • 2012 Named as Super Doctor
  • 2012 Recipient of Ohtli Award
  • 2015 VII Premio Iberoamericano Cortes de Cádiz Surgery Award, Spain
  • 2015 Forbes, World's Most Creative Mexicans
  • 2018 Doctorate honoris cause, by University of Santander - UDES - Bucaramanga, COLOMBIA
Learn more about Dr. Q Expand
  • Author of the autobiography Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey From Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon (University of California Press, 2012)
  • Professor of Neurosurgery and Oncology, Neuroscience and Cellular and Molecular Medicine at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore
  • Neurosurgeon of the Year Award in 2014 from Voices Against Brain Cancer
  • Directs the Brain Tumor Surgery Program at The Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital, Baltimore
  • Directs the Pituitary Surgery Program at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
  • Leads the Brain Tumor Stem Cell Laboratory at The John Hopkins University, Baltimore
  • Named one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics in 2008
  • Selected by Popular Science Magazine as one of its annual Brilliant Ten geniuses influencing the course of science
  • Lead editor for the 6th edition of Schmidek and Sweet's Operative Neurosurgical Techniques, the world's preeminent encyclopedia of neurosurgery

Links of Interest

  • 2019 Posey Leadership Highlight Video
  • 2019 Event Photos
  • Nominate our next Posey Leadership Award Recipient!

 


 Past Award Recipients

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