Tuesday, April 3, 2012 - 8:00 p.m.Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D.
Monday, Nov. 7, 2011 • 7:30 p.m.
Hispanics in Texas: Educational Opportunities for the Next Generation
Location: Shell Auditorium, McNair Hall (building No. 51 on the campus map).
Francisco G. Cigarroa, M.D., appointed chancellor of the University of Texas System on Jan. 9, 2009, is a nationally renowned pediatric and transplant surgeon. A native of Laredo, Texas, Cigarroa earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and received his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas.
During his 12 years of postgraduate training, Cigarroa was chief resident at Harvard’s teaching hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and completed a fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. In 1995, he joined the faculty of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and, in 2000, was appointed its third president. In 2003, he was appointed by then-President George W. Bush to serve as a member of the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science. Cigarroa was elected to membership in the prestigious Institute of Medicine of the National Academies in 2006. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a diplomate of the American Board of Surgery and has received a certificate in pediatric surgery from the American Board of Surgery. He is a member of the Yale University Council and was elected in June 2010 to serve as an alumni fellow to the Yale Corporation.
