Alberto Romualdez

Alberto del Gallego Romualdez Jr. (September 14, 1940 – October 14, 2013) was a Filipino physician who served as the Secretary of Health from 1998 to 2001 in the Cabinet of President Joseph Estrada.

Romualdez was the eldest of the seven children of Alberto Zialcita Romualdez Sr., a former secretary general of the World Medical Association, and Covadonga del Gallego, a former chairman of the Pathology Department of the University of Santo Tomas Hospital.

His uncle Daniel Jr. was House Speaker from 1956 to 1962 while his grandfather Miguel served as Manila mayor during the American colonial period and Leyte assemblyman during the Commonwealth era.

He had further education in the United States: Tumor Immunology at the University of Connecticut and Membrane Biophysics at Harvard Medical School.

Romualdez died at the age of 73 on October 14, 2013, in Manila Doctors Hospital two days after a heart attack.