Alberto Iván Francisco Robles Pantoja (born 4 October 1956) is a Chilean politician who served as deputy.
From 1990 to 1994, he served as Regional Ministerial Secretary of Health in the Atacama Region. 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.
Since 1998, he has served as head of the Urology Service at the Regional Hospital of Copiapó.
He was born on 4 October 1956 in Santiago, Chile. He is the son of Luis Pantoja Robles and MarÃÂa Inés Robles Pantoja.
Robles is married to Dayse Karina Rebolledo Aaby and is the father of four children: Andrés Francisco, Paz Alejandra, Nicolás Alberto and Rodrigo Iván.
Between 1968 and 1973, he completed his primary and secondary education at Kent School in Santiago and at the Instituto Nacional. He later enrolled in medical studies at the University of Chile, where he qualified as a Surgeon in 1980.
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). In 1990, he completed a Diploma in Health Institutions Management at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile. Later, at the University of Barcelona and the Instituto de Educación de España (IEDE), he obtained a MasterâÂÂs degree in Public Administration in 1999.
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. 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 JoaquÃÂn Aguirre.
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. 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.
In political matters, between 1970 and 1973 he was a secondary school leader at the Instituto Nacional. He later participated in Acción Cultural Universitaria and in the reorganization of the Radical University Groups (GUR).
From 1980 to 1987, Robles was part of the Medical Chapter of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Chile. 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. He participated in drafting his partyâÂÂs Health Program and in the Concertación por la Democracia organized for the government of President Patricio Aylwin.
In 1994, he joined the General Council of the Radical Social Democratic Party (PRSD). Between 1999 and 2000, he participated in the Regional Commission of the presidential campaign of Ricardo Lagos. Subsequently, in 1997, he served as regional president and later as vice president of the PRSD.