Francisco G. Cigarroa
| Francisco Gonzalez Cigarroa | |
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| Born |
December 7, 1957 Laredo, Webb County Texas, USA |
| Residence | San Antonio, Texas, USA |
| Alma mater |
J. W. Nixon High School |
| Occupation | First Hispanic to serve as president of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio |
J. W. Nixon High School
Yale University
Francisco Gonzalez Cigarroa (born December 12, 1957) is an American transplant surgeon who served as chancellor of the University of Texas System. As a Mexican-American, Cigarroa is also the first Hispanic to serve as president of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA).
Born in the border city of Laredo in south Texas, Cigarroa graduated from J. W. Nixon High School. In 1979, he earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He received his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in 1983. He was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, a national honor society for medical students, residents, scientists, and physicians in the United States and Canada.
During his twelve years of postgraduate training, Cigarroa was chief resident at Massachusetts General Hospital ‒ the teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts ‒ and completed pediatric surgery and transplant surgery fellowships at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
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