Francisco G. Cigarroa
Francisco Gonzalez Cigarroa (born December 1, 1957)[1] is a medical doctor and Chancellor of the University of Texas System. He is also the first Hispanic to serve as president of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA).
A Mexican American native of Laredo, Texas, Dr. Cigarroa graduated from J. W. Nixon High School. After completing high school, he earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1979 and received his medical degree from The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas in 1983. He was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha, the national honor medal. During his twelve years of postgraduate training, Dr. Cigarroa was chief resident at Massachusetts General Hospital, the teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston, and completed a fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.[2]
Dr. Cigarroa was appointed Chancellor of the University of Texas System (www.utsystem.edu) in January 2009. He is the first Hispanic to ever lead a major university system in the United States. Before this appointment he had been President of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. In August of 2011 Chancellor Cigarroa presented to the University Board of Regents his Framework for Excellence designed to make the University of Texas System one of the top ranked Systems of higher learning institutions in the US. The Framework was unanimously approved by the Board of Regents. Since that approval the Chancellor and his Framework for Excellence have received national attention and national acclaim. In December of 2011 the Chancellor was invited to the White House to share his Framework with President Obama and Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education.
He was elected an Alumni Fellow to the Yale Corporation for a six year term commencing July 1, 2010.
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- ^ http://www.nydailynews.com/latino/2009/02/02/2009-02-02_texan_becomes_1st_hispanic_to_lead_schoo.html
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