Ricardo Celis Araya
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Ricardo Celis Araya | |
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| Member of the Senate | |
| Assumed office 11 March 2026 | |
| Preceded by | Jaime Quintana |
| Constituency | Araucanía Region |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 11 March 2018 – 11 March 2022 | |
| Constituency | District 23 |
| Intendant of Araucanía Region | |
| In office 7 April 2003 – 11 March 2006 | |
| Councilman of Temuco | |
| In office 6 December 2012 – 6 December 2016 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 July 1955 |
| Party | |
| Spouse | Lilian Fernández |
| Children | Five |
| Alma mater |
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| Occupation | Politician |
| Profession | Physician |
Ricardo Celis Araya (born 11 July 1955) is a Chilean politician who serves as parliamentary.[1][2]
Ricardo Patricio Celis Araya was born on 11 July 1955 in Valparaíso. He is the son of Luis Celis Vargas and Fresia Lastenia Araya Díaz.[2] He is married to Lilian Beatriz Fernández, and has four children (three daughters and one son).[2]
He completed his secondary education at Colegio Rubén Castro in Viña del Mar. He later studied medicine at the University of Chile, qualifying as a physician and surgeon. He subsequently specialized in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of La Frontera.[2]
Celis completed further postgraduate training in gynecological endoscopy at the University of Perugia in Italy and at the University of Clermont Auvergne in France. He also holds a diploma in health management from the Diego Portales University.[2]
Medical and academic career
Celis has developed most of his professional medical career at the Hernán Henríquez Aravena Hospital in Temuco, where he worked primarily until 10 March 2018. He later continued working as a gynecologist at Hospital de Temuco.[2]
He has served as a member of the governing board of the University of La Frontera and, as of the present, is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine of the same institution.[2]