He holds the academic title of Clinical Professor of Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College (New York-Presbyterian) in New York City.

This procedure, performed in cancer patients, utilized microsurgical techniques to preserve the viability of the bone transplant.

His father, Enrique Hidalgo, an orphan from Guayaquil, Ecuador, graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was an aerospace engineer during the Cold War.

Hidalgo attended Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., where he completed a bachelor of science degree in fine arts and biology in 1974.

Kazanjian Visiting Professor at Hansjorg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery, NYU Langone Health, New York University.

[18] Through the Hidalgo-Tighe Foundation Hidalgo and his wife support the Lung Cancer Research Foundation, the Inner City Scholarship Fund, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Georgetown University, Lincoln Center, Cardinal Spellman High School, and the Perlman Performing Arts Center.