Pierre Grondin (August 18, 1925 – January 17, 2006) was a Canadian cardiac surgeon, and one of the first doctors to perform a successful heart transplant.
[1][2] He introduced techniques such as open-heart surgery using the heart-lung machine and coronary artery bypass surgery to the Montreal Heart Institute after his post-graduate training with pioneers Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley in Houston, Texas.
[3] He played a significant role in the development of open-heart surgery using the heart-lung machine in the early 1950s, collaborating with pioneers in the field.
[5] Grondin was awarded a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Université Laval in 1951, after which he went on to obtain a specialist's certificate in cardiac surgery and a fellowship from the American College of Surgeons in San Francisco in 1960.
He returned to Canada in 1990 to start a cardiac surgery program at the Hotel-Dieu Hospital in Quebec City and in 1995, at the age of 70, he retired.