Dr. Molina graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BS in Cellular and Molecular biology. He obtained his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and completed an MPH in Quantitative Methods at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed a residency in General Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and a fellowship in Complex General Surgical Oncology at Brigham and Women's Hospital/MGH and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. As part of his training, Dr. Molina also completed a two-year postgraduate research fellowship at Ariadne Labs, where he worked in health systems innovations and research, clinical studies in surgical oncology, and impact of a surgical safety checklist program.
Dr. Molina’s clinical and research interests include improving the safety, quality and equity of surgical care through health systems innovation. He is also interested in understanding the impact of fragmentation of cancer care on disparities in surgical outcomes in the United States.