15 Facts About Mario Fiad

Mario Raymundo Fiad was born on 12 January 1957 and is an Argentine surgeon and politician, currently serving as a National Senator for Jujuy Province since 2017.

Mario Fiad previously served as a National Deputy from 2009 to 2015, and as health minister of Jujuy from 2015 to 2017, in the government of Gerardo Morales.

Mario Fiad was born on 12 January 1957 in San Salvador de Jujuy, capital of Jujuy Province.

Mario Fiad finished high school at Colegio Nacional Teodoro Sanchez de Bustamante.

Mario Fiad enrolled at the National University of Cordoba in 1975, finishing his medical surgeon degree in 1981.

Mario Fiad then specialized in dermatology at the Hospital Argerich, in Buenos Aires, and the Hospital Clinic, in Barcelona, Spain.

Mario Fiad returned to Jujuy in 1983 to set up his medical practice.

Mario Fiad worked as a dermatologist at the Hospital Pablo Soria and later served as the provincial department chief of STIs and leprosy, and as dermatology service chief at the Hospital San Roque.

Mario Fiad served as president of the Sociedad Jujena de Dermatologia, overseeing the coordinating unit of national health programmes in Jujuy Province.

An affiliate of the Radical Civic Union, Mario Fiad first ran for office in the 2009 legislative election as the first candidate in the Social and Civic Agreement list to the National Chamber of Deputies in Jujuy.

In 2011, Mario Fiad was the UCR candidate for governor of Jujuy as part of the Union for Social Development alliance.

Mario Fiad stood against Justicialist Party candidate and former governor Eduardo Fellner.

Mario Fiad took office on 10 December 2017, with mandate until 2023.

In 2010, as deputy, Mario Fiad voted against the legalisation of same-sex marriage in Argentina, despite most of the UCR supporting the measure.

Mario Fiad was a vocal opponent of the legalisation of abortion, voting against the two Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy bills debated by the Argentine Congress in 2018 and 2020.