Giunti, Guido
Academic degree
MD PhD MBA
Title
Yliopistotutkija
Unit
Lääketieteen tekniikan ja terveystieteiden tutkimusyksikkö
Fields of expertise
Digital Health
Fields of science
3121 General medicine, internal medicine and other clinical medicine, 217 Medical engineering, 113 Computer and information sciences, 3141 Health care science
Language skills
English, Spanish, Castilian
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Description of activity:
Guido Giunti MD PhD MBA is a medical doctor specialized in the use of digital health solutions for people with chronic conditions.
Dr. Giunti was trained as a clinician at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and Hospital de Clínicas José de San Martin, Argentina. He has practiced medicine as part of City of Buenos Aires’ network of Healthcare Attention Centers that offers Primary Care to its citizens.
Guido co-founded TEDxUBA, the TEDx event of the University of Buenos Aires, which under his guidance grew to be an event with over 1500 attendees; and designed “Immune Defense”, an educational tower-defense videogame that teaches how the immune system fights off infections using real immunobiological concepts.
Dr. Giunti's work has received numerous awards, including a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellowship, the Best Doctoral Dissertation award in his field, and recognition as one of Finland's top healthcare innovators by the medical magazine Mediuutiset. In 2021, he was selected as one of Argentina's Ten Outstanding Young Persons by the Junior Chamber International due to his work on medical innovations. In 2024, Guido received the Changemaker in Health and Global Patient Innovator award by HIMSS
Dr. Guido Giunti is currently the leader of the Digital Therapeutics (DTx) research group.