Meet the author

Dr Alejandro Molina, the heart surgeon behind these guides

Every guide on this page is written by Dr Molina himself — in plain language, to help patients and families understand their options before they ever reach the clinic. Have a question about your case? Let's talk, at no cost.

Dr Alejandro Molina, cardiac surgeon
Dr Alejandro Molina

About Dr Molina

Dr Alejandro Molina is a cardiovascular surgeon practising in Guadalajara, with a decade of work across highly specialised public and private centres in Mexico, Canada and France. His focus is on structural cardiology and minimally invasive technique — the approaches that have reshaped cardiac surgery in recent years.

  • First Mexican accepted as a Fellow in structural cardiology at the University Center of Bordeaux, France (Hôpital Haut Lévêque).
  • First Mexican accepted as a Fellow in advanced cardiac surgery and minimally invasive procedures at the Montreal Heart Institute, University of Montreal, Canada.
  • Specialty in cardiovascular surgery from the University of Guadalajara.

Over his career he has taken part in more than 1,000 cardiac surgical procedures, and was recognised by the University of Montreal for his service during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Montreal Heart Institute.

Dr Alejandro Molina is a cardiovascular surgeon in Guadalajara whose training is concentrated in the two areas that have changed cardiac surgery most in the last decade: structural cardiology and minimally invasive technique.

Why he writes these guides

Writing is something Dr Molina does in his own time, because he believes a frightened patient who understands their options makes a better decision than one who doesn't. The articles on this site are his way of sitting down with you before you ever reach the clinic.

Each guide is written to explain one thing clearly — a procedure, a test, a word you heard and didn't recognise — in plain language, without hype and without talking down to anyone. He would rather you arrive informed, with your questions already half-answered, so the conversation can be about you and not about definitions.

It is the same principle the whole practice is built on: help first, and let everything else follow from that.

Articles by Dr Molina

48 guides and explainers, written to help patients and families understand their options.