Miguel Ángel Alvarado

Miguel Ángel Alvarado (born 10 July 1961) is a Chilean politician who served as deputy.

In the public sector, during the 1990s he worked at the Hospital of Quintero, later returning to Ovalle, where he served as Director of the Hospital of Ovalle ―Limarí Province― from 2001 to 2002. While pursuing postgraduate studies, he worked at the Hospital of La Serena and subsequently joined the permanent staff of the National Cancer Institute in Santiago.

Among his professional activities, he served as President of the Medical Chapter of Ovalle. He has also worked as a physician in private clinics in Santiago in the field of digestive and oncological surgery.

Biography He was born in Ovalle on 10 July 1961. He is the son of Miguel Conrado Alvarado Estay and Elsa de Mercedes Ramírez Ojeda. He is married to María Eugenia De la Fuente, and is the father of three children.

He completed his first three years of primary education in the locality of El Trapiche. He later attended the Parochial School of Ovalle, where he finished his primary education. He completed his secondary education at the Alejandro Álvarez Jofré High School (A-9) of Ovalle—today the Bicentennial Alejandro Álvarez Jofré High School—graduating in 1978. He studied Medicine at the University of Chile, qualifying as a surgeon.

He specialized in advanced laparoscopy at Padre Hurtado Hospital and at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. He later obtained a Diploma in Bioethics from the University of Chile and completed postgraduate specialization studies in oncological surgery at the University of the Andes.

Political career During his university years, he participated in the «Pehuén Ecological Movement» at the University of Chile, where he was an active opponent of Augusto Pinochet regime.

In 2004, he was elected councillor of the commune of Ovalle, Coquimbo Region, representing the Party for Democracy (PPD). He also served as regional president of the PPD. In 2008, he ran as an independent candidate for mayor of Ovalle on the Concertación coalition list but was not elected.

In 2009, he ran as an independent candidate for Deputy for District No. 8 of the Coquimbo Region on the Nueva Mayoría para Chile list. In 2013, he was a pre-candidate of the Party for Democracy for a seat in the Chamber of Deputies representing the IV Region.

In November 2017, he sought re-election as Deputy for the 5th District representing the PPD, within the La Fuerza de la Mayoría pact but was not elected.