Pedro García Aspillaga

Pedro Enrique García Aspillaga, born on 7 October 1960, is a Chilean physician who took his medical degree at the University of Chile and went on to practise as an obstetrician-gynecologist at the Hospital del Salvador in Santiago, where he served as the hospital's deputy medical director from 1994 to 1996. He then moved into health administration, directing the Eastern Metropolitan Health Service and later the Public Health Institute of Chile, and he completed an MBA through a joint programme of Alberto Hurtado University and Loyola College in Baltimore. In 2003 he became Minister of Health in the government of President Ricardo Lagos, overseeing the Health System Reform and the AUGE Plan, which provides state-funded coverage for a defined set of diseases, until March 2006. From 2009 he was Dean of the Faculty of Health at Santo Tomás University, and he sat as a municipal councillor for Santiago from 2008 to 2016.