Guido Girardi Brière
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Guido Girardi Brière | |
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| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 11 March 2006 – 11 March 2010 | |
| Preceded by | Guido Girardi |
| Succeeded by | Cristina Girardi |
| Constituency | 18th District |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 17 November 1934 |
| Party | Party for Democracy |
| Spouse | Rosa Lavín |
| Children | Four (among them, Guido[1] and Cristina) |
| Parent(s) | Treviso Girardi Andrée Brière |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Physician |
Guido Girardi Brière (born 25 March 1934) is a Chilean politician who served as deputy during the 52nd Period of the National Congress of Chile (2006–2010). He was a historic member of the Party for Democracy (PPD).
He was a founding member of the Latin American Society of Pediatric Pulmonology and served as its president from 1992 to 1995. He is also a member of the Chilean Society of Pediatrics; the Chilean Society of Respiratory Diseases and Tuberculosis; the Chilean Society of Allergy and Immunology; the Latin American Society of Allergy and Immunology; and the General Council of the Medical College.[2][3]
He is an enthusiast of painting and was a founding member of the Institute of Art and Culture of the Medical College of Chile. In 1981, he received First Prize in Painting at the Physicians' Art Salon.[4]
He is a sponsor of the Basic Specialist Training Program, which integrates internists, pediatricians, obstetrician-gynecologists, and psychiatrists into primary care clinics to strengthen the Family Health model. Until his election as a deputy, he worked at Exequiel González Cortés Hospital.[2]
Girardi was born in Santiago, and is the son of Treviso Girardi and Andrée Brière. He is married to Rosa Lavín and has four children, among them Guido Girardi and Cristina Girardi.[2]
He studied at the Alianza Francesa School in Santiago. He lated enrolled in the School of Medicine of the University of Chile, where he obtained his medical degree in 1960.[2] Between 1962 and 1963, he specialized in pediatrics in France at the University of Paris.[2]
From 1966 to 1973, Girardi worked at San Juan de Dios Hospital and Félix Bulnes Hospital, where he created and led the department of Pediatric Respiratory Diseases.[2] Between 1973 and 1981, he served as Head of the Department of Pediatric Respiratory Diseases at Exequiel González Cortés Hospital.[2]
From 1977, he has been Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile, where he directed numerous postgraduate courses on respiratory diseases.[2] Beginning in 1980s, he was on charge of the Center for Specialists on Respiratory Diseases affiliated with the same university.[2]
In 1982, Girardi invented the space driver for administering inhalers.[2] In 1990, he created and implemented the National Program for Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI), which remains in effect today.[2] As a result, he has provided ARI-related advisory services to health authorities in Mexico, Peru, Argentina, and Uruguay, in addition to attending specific congresses and publishing articles in his specialty both in Chile and abroad.[2]