Alberto Robles
Chilean politician (born 1956)
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Alberto Iván Francisco Robles Pantoja (born 4 October 1956) is a Chilean politician who served as deputy.[1]
Alberto Robles | |
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| President of the Radical Party | |
| In office 23 November 2021 – 11 July 2022 | |
| Preceded by | Carlos Maldonado |
| Succeeded by | Leonardo Cubillos |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 11 March 2002 – 11 March 2018 | |
| Preceded by | Baldo Prokurica |
| Succeeded by | District dissolved |
| Constituency | 6th District |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 October 1956 |
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| Spouse | Dayse Rebolledo |
| Children | Five |
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| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Physician |
From 1990 to 1994, he served as Regional Ministerial Secretary of Health in the Atacama Region.[2] Concurrently, between 1993 and 1994, he was acting director of the Atacama Health Service, a position he later assumed permanently as director of the same service.[2]
Since 1998, he has served as head of the Urology Service at the Regional Hospital of Copiapó.[2]
Family and early life
He was born on 4 October 1956 in Santiago, Chile.[2] He is the son of Luis Pantoja Robles and María Inés Robles Pantoja.[2]
Robles is married to Dayse Karina Rebolledo Aaby and is the father of four children: Andrés Francisco, Paz Alejandra, Nicolás Alberto and Rodrigo Iván.[2]
Professional career
Between 1968 and 1973, he completed his primary and secondary education at Kent School in Santiago and at the Instituto Nacional.[2] He later enrolled in medical studies at the University of Chile, where he qualified as a Surgeon in 1980.[2]
In 1984, he specialized in urology at the same university, and in 1988 he obtained certification as a specialist in urology granted by the National Autonomous Corporation for the Certification of Medical Specialties (Conacem).[2] In 1990, he completed a Diploma in Health Institutions Management at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile.[2] Later, at the University of Barcelona and the Instituto de Educación de España (IEDE), he obtained a Master’s degree in Public Administration in 1999.[2]
Professionally, he served as a tenured physician and lecturer in the Department of Normal Anatomy at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile.[2] He also worked as a trainee physician, contracted physician and tenured physician in the specialty of urology at the Hospital Barros Luco-Trudeau, and as a substitute physician in the Emergency Service of Hospital José Joaquín Aguirre.[2]
He further worked as a physician, first and second surgical assistant in Shift V of the Emergency Service, and later as head of that service in the Western Area of Santiago.[2] In addition, he served as a urologist in the Surgery Service of the Chilean Air Force Hospital in Santiago and as head of the rotating shift of its Emergency Service.[2]
Political career
In political matters, between 1970 and 1973 he was a secondary school leader at the Instituto Nacional.[2] He later participated in Acción Cultural Universitaria and in the reorganization of the Radical University Groups (GUR).[2]
From 1980 to 1987, Robles was part of the Medical Chapter of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile.[2] In 1987, he joined the Radical Party and served as a member of the Regional Council of Atacama and as a member of its Political Commission.[2] He participated in drafting his party’s Health Program and in the Concertación por la Democracia organized for the government of President Patricio Aylwin.[2]
In 1994, he joined the General Council of the Radical Social Democratic Party (PRSD).[2] Between 1999 and 2000, he participated in the Regional Commission of the presidential campaign of Ricardo Lagos.[2] Subsequently, in 1997, he served as regional president and later as vice president of the PRSD.[2]