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1 Dr. Sergio Canavero says he is two years away from performing the first total human head transplant. 2  The first patient will be a 30-year-old Russian man with a rare, genetic muscle wasting disease. 3  One ethicist says Canavero should be helping paralyzed patients walk before performing body transplants.
At the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Alfredo QuiÃ±ones-Hinojosa has four positions. He is a neurosurgeon who teaches oncology and neurosurgery, directs a neurosurgery clinic and heads a laboratory studying brain tumors. He also performs nearly 250 brain operations a year. Twenty years ago, Dr. QuiÃ±ones-Hinojosa, now 40, was an illegal immigrant working in the vegetable fields of the Central Valley in California. He became a citizen in 1997 while at Harvard.