Enrique Paris

Oscar Enrique Paris Mancilla (born 3 September 1948) is a Chilean physician and politician who served as Minister of Health.

Biography Born and raised in Puerto Montt, he is the fourth child of Enrique Paris Maldonado, a volunteer firefighter with Bomberos de Chile, and Carmen Mancilla Elgueta, His siblings are Carmen Luz (early childhood educator), Ximena (physician), and Jaime (architect).

On 17 May 2022, he was declared an honorary citizen ("Hijo Ilustre") of Providencia.

Education He studied at Colegio San Francisco Javier in Puerto Montt. In 1969, he moved to Santiago to study medicine, graduating as a physician (M.D.) from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.

After completing his studies, he began his medical career in Chiloé. Between 1975 and 1979, he served as a rural general practitioner in Achao.

Between 1979 and 1982, he returned to Santiago and completed a pediatric residency at Hospital Luis Calvo Mackenna through the University of Chile. In 1984, he traveled to Belgium to pursue pediatric intensive care studies at the Catholic University of Louvain in Brussels.

He also completed specialization training in toxicology at the National Capital Poison Center of Georgetown University, United States, and in postoperative cardiac intensive care at the Cardio-Surgical Intensive Care Unit of the University of Michigan Hospital.