Enrique Accorsi Opazo

Enrique Accorsi Opazo (born 17 August 1948) is a Chilean politician who served as deputy.

In 1990, he joined the team of pediatric surgeons at Clínica Alemana de Santiago, a role he has maintained.

He completed his primary and secondary education at Saint George's College, Santiago, graduating in 1965. He then entered the Faculty of Medicine at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and later specialized at the University of Chile. In 1981, he obtained a postgraduate scholarship in neonatal surgery at the Hospital Vall d’Hebron in Barcelona, Spain. He is a specialist physician in pediatric and orthopedic surgery.

Between 1978 and 1981, he worked at the Puerto Montt Hospital in pediatric surgery, where he served as Head of the Pediatric Surgery Service and later as Head of the Emergency Service shift. He subsequently became Head of the Private Patients Service at the same institution.

In 1981, he assumed leadership of the Burn Unit Outpatient Clinic at the Regional Hospital of Puerto Montt and also worked as a physician at the outpatient clinic of the Instituto de Seguridad del Trabajo. In 1984, he became Head of the Private Patients Service at the Regional Hospital of Puerto Montt, and in 1986, Coordinator of the Specialty Outpatient Clinic.

In 1987, he returned to Santiago and joined the Pediatric Surgery Service at Sótero del Río Hospital, where he worked as a physician and coordinator of the Surgical Pavilion. The following year, he became Head of the Upper Digestive Team of the Pediatric Surgery Service at the same hospital.

In 1996, he worked as a pediatric surgeon at Hospital Luis Calvo Mackenna and assumed leadership of the Pediatric Emergency Service.

Political career He began his political activities in 1973 when he was elected president of the Student Federation of the School of Medicine at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. The following year, he became a university councillor. In 1975, he assumed the presidency of the National Association of Medical School Student Federations of Chile.

In 1985, he presided over the Puerto Montt Regional Council of the Colegio Médico de Chile. In 1990, he assumed the presidency of the Santiago Regional Council of the same organization.

In 1992, he was general councillor of the Santiago Regional Council of the Colegio Médico de Chile. In 1996 and again in 2001, he served as president of the Colegio Médico de Chile. In 1998, he became a member of the Council of the World Medical Association, and the following year he chaired its Ethics Committee.

In 2001, he was elected president of the World Medical Association, becoming the first Latin American physician to lead the organization, which brings together medical associations from more than 108 countries.

As of March 2014, he joined the cabinet of Helia Molina, Minister of Health under President Michelle Bachelet, serving as adviser on legislative matters and hospital infrastructure. He also resumed his duties at Hospital Luis Calvo Mackenna.