Neuroscience Breakthroughs

Pat McCaw, M.D., is a family practice physician and children's author from Eldridge, Iowa. She is passionate about using books to help children with emotional and health issues. In addition to writing, she practices family medicine part-time and is a faculty physician at a medical residency program.

Pat teaches classes on how to use picture books in the classroom and writes online educational lessons on science and physiology. If she has any free time, she loves to hike and fish while spending time with her family. Her dog, Poppy, rules the household.

Pat's website and blog is found at www.patmccawauthor.com Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, M.D., Mayo Clinic as a consultant and chair of the Department of Neurologic Surgery at the clinic's Florida campus and is the author of Becoming Dr. Q. Named one of the one hundred most influential Hispanics in 2008, Dr.

Q was also selected by Popular Science magazine as one of their Annual Brilliant Ten. Along with appearances on such shows as NOVA, CNN with Sanjay Gupta, CBS news with Katie COURIC, NBC's The Today Show, as well as on National Public Radio, Dr. Q has been featured as the subject of an episode of the Netflix limited series The Surgeon's Cut..