Juan Luis Castro

Juan Luis Castro González is a Chilean physician, trade union leader and politician of the Socialist Party, born in Santiago on 18 April 1960. He studied medicine at the University of Chile, qualified in 1985 with a specialisation in internal medicine and later in haematology, and completed a master's degree in health administration in 1994. He practised in the intensive care unit of the Hospital Barros Luco, at the Hospital del Profesor and in private practice in Rancagua. In professional politics he led the Association of Young Doctors from 1985 to 1987 and was president of the Colegio Médico de Chile from 2002 to 2008, and since 2008 he has headed its Department of Health Studies and Policy. He sat in the Chamber of Deputies from 2010 to 2022, chairing the Health committee, and became a senator in March 2022.