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Dr. Guido Giunti

Adjunct Professor ()

 giuntig@tcd.ie

 


Biography

Dr. Guido Giunti is a medical doctor specialized in digital health design and development. He completed his medical studies in Argentina and received training in Family Medicine and Primary Care. Dr. Giunti has worked in academic, clinical, and industrial settings at top organizations in Europe, including the University of Oulu in Finland, TU Delft in the Netherlands, and Trinity College Dublin in Ireland. Dr. Giunti is also an entrepreneur, having co-founded "TEDxUBA", the TEDx event of the University of Buenos Aires, and designed the educational video game "Immune Defense" about how the immune system fights off infections. He has combined his medical, technological, entrepreneurial, and design expertise to lead the development of "More Stamina", an evidence-driven self-management gamified digital health solution for people with Multiple Sclerosis. 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 currently works in Trinity College Dublin on the topic of Digital Therapeutics for chronic conditions.

Research Tags

  Digital Health   digital therapeutics   MEDICAL DEVICE SOFTWARE   mHealth

Languages

Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
Finnish Basic Basic Basic
Italian Basic Basic Basic
Spanish Fluent Fluent Fluent

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

Details Date From Date To
Irish Institute of Clinical Neuroscience 09/2023 Present
Member of the Spanish Foundation Research Group in Breast Cancer (GEICAM) 01/2021 Present
Editorial Board of the Journal of Medical Internet Research on Serious Games 04/2014 06/2023
Chairperson of the Network of Argentine Scientists in Finland (RCAFi) 04/2021 03/2023
Health Care Professionals Perspectives on the Uses of Patient-Generated Health Data in, Challenges of Trustable AI and Added-Value on Health, IOS Press, 2022, pp750--754 , [Guardado, Sharon and Isomursu, Minna and Giunti, Guido], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Yrttiaho, Tiia and Isomursu, Minna and Giunti, Guido, Experiences Using Patient and Public Involvement in Digital Health Research for Multiple Sclerosis, Challenges of Trustable AI and Added-Value on Health, IOS Press, 2022, pp735--739 , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Guido Giunti, Informing the Product Development of an mHealth Solution for People with Multiple Sclerosis Through Early Health Technology Assessment, MEDINFO 2021: One World, One Health " Global Partnership for Digital Innovation, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Guido Giunti, Smart home applications for cognitive health of older adults, Smart Home Technologies and Services for Geriatric Rehabilitation, 2022, p123--140 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Fernanda Ortiz, Guido Giunti, Usability assessment of an interactive health technology for kidney living donors, BMJ Open, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Wang, Tingting and Giunti, Guido and Mellesa, Marijke and Goossens, Richard, Design-Relevant Factors Affecting the Patient Experience in Digital Health: Preliminary Results of an Umbrella Systematic Review, Studies in Health Technology and Informatics, 290, 2022, p862--866 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Wang, Tingting and Giunti, Guido and Melles, Marijke and Goossens, Richard and others, Digital Patient Experience: Umbrella Systematic Review, Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24, (8), 2022, pe37952 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Halabi, Ammar and Martin, Blaine and Koledova, Ekaterina and Giunti, Guido and Dimitri, Paul, A patient-centric approach to connected health solutions in paediatric growth hormone therapy, Hormone Research in Paediatrics, 82, 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Ortiz, Fernanda and Giunti, Guido, Usability of an Interactive Health Technology for Kidney Living Donors Assessment: Towards a Standardized Informed Process, Transplant International, Public Health and Informatics, 34, 2021, pp392--392 , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Giunti, G and Isomursu, M and Gabarron, E and Solad, Y, Designing Depression Screening Chatbots, 15th International Congress in Nursing Informatics, Smart Home Technologies and Services for Geriatric Rehabilitation, 284, 2021, pp259--263 , Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
  

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Guido Giunti, 'More Stamina', 2020, -, Software, PUBLISHED
Giunti G, Designers are from Mars , Physicians are from Venus : challenges on integrating HCI and IS perspectives into Healthcare, Electronic Journal of Information Systems Evaluation, 2017, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Guido Giunti, 'Immune Defense', 2014, -, Software, PUBLISHED

  

Awards and Honours

Award Date
Noel Callaghan Medal - Irish Neurological Association, Ireland 2024
Best Innovator of 2023 - Marie Curie Alumni Association 2024
Changemaker in Health Global Patient Innovator - HIMSS 2024
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship - European Commission 2023
MBA Scholarship - Henley Business School, UK 2022
Visiting Scholar - TU Delft, The Netherlands 2022
Ten Outstanding Young Person Award (Argentina) - Junior Chamber International 2021
Ten Outstanding Young Person Award (Buenos Aires) - Junior Chamber International 2021
Best Doctoral Dissertation - The Finnish Information Processing Association (TIVIA), Finland 2019
Best Scientific Publication of the Month (February) - Universidad de Sevilla, Spain 2018
Best Scientific Publication of the Month (May) - Universidad de Sevilla, Spain 2018
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship - European Commission 2015
AMIA Design Challenge Finalist - American Medical Informatics Association Annual Symposium, USA 2014
TEDx Scholarship - TED Conferences, USA 2013
First Aid Competition of Europe Representing Delegate - Argentinean Red Cross 2006

Research Interests

Description Of Research Interests

Dr. Giunti has a keen interest in using technology to improve people's quality of life and increase their access to healthcare. The use of digital therapeutics can empower patients, lower costs and ease the burden on healthcare systems. However, reaching the status of digital therapeutic is a complex journey, with many obstacles along the way. To address these challenges, Dr. Giunti has been working on developing tools and methods for creating effective digital health solutions. His goal is to not only explore the path towards digital therapeutics but also venture forward to create reproducible methods for others to follow.