Hiran Gonçalves

Hiran Manuel Gonçalves da Silva (born 5 May 1968) is a Brazilian politician as well as a physician and ophthalmologist.

[1] Gonçalves married to Gerlane Baccarin with whom he has one child and he has four other children from a first marriage and he has four grandchildren.

Gonçalves is a physician prior to entering politics, and has also worked as an ophthalmologist and is a member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology.

[2] Gonçalves moved with his family from Amazonas to Roraima in 1982, he worked as a medical examiner at the Instituto Médico Legal (IML) in Roraima from 1982 to 2007.

He has served briefly as a health inspector to prevent cancer and sexual abuse in the Northwest states of Brazil.

[1] Gonçalves voted in favor of the impeachment against then-president Dilma Rousseff.

[4] Gonçalves voted in favor of the Brazil labor reform (2017), and would later back Rousseff's successor Michel Temer against a similar impeachment motion.