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 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.
He was elected an Alumni Fellow to the Yale Corporation for a six year term commencing July 1, 2010.