Alberto Daiber

Alberto Daiber Etcheverry (23 February 1926 – 17 October 1994) was a Chilean physician and politician, member of the Christian Democratic Party.

He served as Deputy for the 22nd Departmental District (Valdivia, La Unión and Río Bueno) in the legislative period 1965–1969. He had previously been alderman (regidor) of La Unión in 1959 and 1963.

Biography He was born in La Unión on 23 February 1926, the son of Alberto Daiber Von Appenseller and Laurencia Etcheverry Jusant.

Daiber studied at the Liceo of La Unión and later entered the University of Chile, graduating as a surgeon on 7 September 1949 with the thesis Anemias Nieloptísicas.

Between 1944 and 1948, he worked as an assistant in the Chair of Biology. After graduating, he served in the Hospital of La Unión, later working as a cytologist at the Servicio de Medicina of the Hospital del Salvador, and as physician at the Unidad Sanitaria de Quinta Normal.

In 1961 he organized the Hematology Department of the Hospital Barros Luco, where he was chief until 1979. In 1973 he was appointed director of the laboratory of the Clínica Alemana.

He was Associate Professor at the University of Chile in his specialty and presided over the Chilean Society of Hematology between 1980 and 1981.

Political career He joined the Christian Democratic Party and was elected alderman of La Unión in 1959 and again in 1963.

In the 1965 parliamentary elections, he was elected Deputy for the 22nd Departmental District (Valdivia, La Unión and Río Bueno), serving during the legislative period 1965–1969.

He died in Santiago on 17 October 1994.