Luiz Henrique Mandetta

Luiz Henrique Mandetta was born in Campo Grande (MS). He holds a degree in medicine from the University of Gama Filho (Rio de Janeiro, RJ - 1989) and a post-graduate degree in orthopedics from the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul. In the United States (Atlanta, Georgia), he obtained a specialty in pediatric orthopedics from the Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also a specialist in service management and health system by Fundação Getúlio Vargas. He began his career as a physician at the Army General Hospital and, in 1993, he joined the Santa Casa de Campo Grande (MS) medical staff. In 1996, he was admitted as an adjunct physician at the University Hospital and also served as a professor of the postgraduate course at the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS). He followed as fiscal councilor of the Cooperativa de Médicos (Unimed) of Campo Grande (1998-99), Technical Councilor of Santa Casa, in 2000, and President of Unimed in 2001. In 2004, he began his four-year term as elected counselor to the Mato Grosso do Sul Regional Medical Council (CRM/MS). From 2005 to 2010, he assumed the Municipal Health Secretariat of Campo Grande (MS). After this period, he served two mandates as a federal deputy for Mato Grosso do Sul (2011 and 2018), when he engaged efforts in the social areas, especially health, medicine, social assistance and education, composing commissions and thematic subcommittees, as well as representing the group of Brazilian parliamentarians in the Mercosur Parliament. Today he is a member of the fiscal council of the Medical Doctor’s Cooperative and the Special Commission to Combat Zika Virus.