Alejandro Velez (Lopez) is a pediatric gastroenterologist and the director of the newly established pediatric neurogastroenterology and motility program at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital within the University of Michigan Medicine system. Dr. Velez is a proud alumni of the University of Maine and the University of Vermont medical school with strong ties to both states. His medical training was completed through Montefiore Children's Hospital in Bronx, NY for his pediatric residency, and his pediatric gastroenterology fellowship through the Cincinnati Children's Hospital. Dr. Velez' special interests lie in the motility (how it moves) of the gut and the crucially important connection between the gut and the brain. As the director of the neurogastroenterology and motility program at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, Dr. Velez hopes to establish evidence-based and cutting edge diagnostic and management modalities for primary and secondary disorders of gut motility, and disorders of gut-brain interaction (DGBI).

Dr. Velez's interests primarily span the realms of clinical and translational research types involving the management., etiology and impact of severe chronic constipation, adapting motility testing to pediatric disorders, and the diagnosis and management of chronic, debilitating functional abdominal pain.