# Alberto Robles > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alberto_Robles > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Alberto_Robles.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Robles > Source revision: 1338864362 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Alberto Iván Francisco Robles Pantoja** (born 4 October 1956) is a [Chilean](/source/Chile) politician who served as deputy.[1] From 1990 to 1994, he served as Regional Ministerial Secretary of Health in the [Atacama Region](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Instituto_Nacional).[2] He later enrolled in medical studies at the [University of Chile](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Radical_Party_(Chile)) 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](/source/Patricio_Aylwin).[2] In 1994, he joined the General Council of the [Radical Social Democratic Party](/source/Radical_Social_Democratic_Party) (PRSD).[2] Between 1999 and 2000, he participated in the Regional Commission of the presidential campaign of [Ricardo Lagos](/source/Ricardo_Lagos).[2] Subsequently, in 1997, he served as regional president and later as vice president of the PRSD.[2] ## References 1. ["Diputado Robles (PRSD) “La profesión mejor pagada del Estado debiera ser la de Educadora de Párvulos”"](https://www.elciudadano.com/politica/diputado-robles-prsd-la-profesion-mejor-pagada-del-estado-debiera-ser-la-de-educadora-de-parvulos6789/06/13/). El Ciudadano. 13 June 2016. Retrieved 13 June 2025. 1. ["Alberto Robles Pantoja"](https://www.bcn.cl/historiapolitica/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Alberto_Robles_Pantoja) (in Spanish). *Biblioteca del Congreso Nacional de Chile* ## External links - [BCN Profile](https://www.bcn.cl/historiapolitica/resenas_parlamentarias/wiki/Alberto_Robles_Pantoja) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Alberto Robles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Robles) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Robles?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.