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Dr. Manuel M. Quiñones, Jr.
Manuel M. Quiñones, MD, is a native San Antonian. He is Board Certified in Family Med-
icine, fluent in both English and Spanish, and continues to practice medicine here in San
Antonio. Dr. Quiñones has a special interest in treating adult patients with hypertension,
diabetes and high cholesterol, conditions so common to so many residents of San Antonio
and South Texas. As a caring physician, Dr. Quiñones makes it a point to spend more time
with his geriatric patients during their office visits, and treats them like he would his own
family. Dr. Quiñones went to college at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, did his medical
training at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, did his Family Practice Res-
idency at The University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio, Texas, and served
on the Faculty of the University of the Incarnate Word School of Osteopathic Medicine in
San Antonio, Texas. Dr. Quiñones has been an active member of the Bexar County Medical
Society having served on the BCMS Board of Directors, various elected officer positions,
and as the 2008 President of the Society. Dr. Quiñones enjoys hunting and ranching. He
especially enjoys spending time with his wife and their two Jack Russell terriers at their ranch
in Medina County. In 2018, Dr. Quiñones received the great honor of being invited to serve
as a member of the Texas Medical Board. Dr. Quiñones was voted one of the Best Doctors
in San Antonio®, Best Doctors in America®, Top Doctors in America®, Texas Super Doc-
tors® and Bridges to Excellence® award recipient.

Dr. Marvin Forland
Marvin Forland, MD, is a native of northern New Jersey. He received his bachelor's degree
Magna cum Laude from Colgate University in 1954 and medical degree from Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons where he was the Theodore Vosseler Scholar.
He completed his internal medicine and nephrology training at the University of Chicago
Affiliated Hospitals. His introduction to San Antonio was two years as assistant chief of
the Renal Branch of the Army's Surgical Research Unit at Brooke Army Medical Center.
Following military service, he spent four years as an assistant professor in the department
of medicine at the University of Chicago School of Medicine. Dr. Forland accepted an in-
vitation to participate in the development of the newly opening University of Texas Medical
School at San Antonio in the fall of 1968, influenced by the major medical needs he had
observed earlier in San Antonio, and UT's outstanding support of the Medical Branch and
Southwestern Medical School. Initially chief of the division of renal diseases in the depart-
ment of medicine, Dr. Forland helped initiate the new curriculum and the hemodialysis,
renal biopsy and renal transplantation programs at the developing school and its affiliated
hospitals. He authored or co-authored over 80 papers and book chapters, primarily in the
area of renal diseases, and edited the Concise Textbook of Nephrology. In 1975, he became
deputy chairman for clinical activities and residency program director in the department of
medicine. Dr. Forland was named Professor Emeritus of Medicine upon retirement from
UTHSCSA in April, 1999. A medical student scholarship in his honor was established by
the UTHSCSA Medical Alumni Association that year, and a "Marvin Forland, M.D., Dis-
tinguished Professorship in Medical Humanities and Ethics", endowed by a former patient.
The Forland Professorship was filled in July, 2002 by Dr. Abraham Verghese, infectious dis-
ease specialist, teacher and writer, who was the founding director of The Center for Medical
Humanities & Ethics.

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