About Dr. Gian

“Ask Dr. Gian” is an ongoing conversation about scientific
and behavioral concerns of sexually transmitted diseases.

Giovanni Alberto Maria Pupillo MD, known as “Dr. Gian”, is Founder and Medical Director of the InforMed Centers, a Community Health Services affiliated to the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospital Network in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dr. Pupillo graduated from Rome Medical School in 1965 and practiced for many years both in Europe and in USA. His professional work includes everal medical articles published by the Annals of Internal Medicine, the British Heart Journal, the American Heart Journal and the Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia, and medical books published in Europe, US and Japan.
Late in the seventies Dr. Pupillo decided to dedicate his work to Public Health and Preventive Medicine, a field of Medicine which was and is still poorly funded, and started researching ways which would easily, affordably and rapidly increase people’s awareness and health maintaining behaviors especially in areas of highest morbidity and mortality, such as Diabetes, Cardiovascular Diseases and AIDS.
In early eighties the InforMed Centers produced numerous Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Screenings campaigns in supermarkets, shopping malls, pharmacies, churches, schools, community centers and many other locations.
Early in 1992 the InforMed Centers pioneered the first private walk-in health and sexually transmitted diseases screening center in the United States where people would be able to walk-in and have direct access to a variety of tests without Doctoruntil available only within hospital and Doctor’s offices.
Ten years later and in partnership with LabCorp of America, Dr. Pupillo launched the first internet based screening network for diabetes, cardiovascular and sexually transmitted diseases utilizing the over 1200 service centers of the laboratory nationwide.
In the nineties the InforMed Centers, in partnership with Diagnology, later acquired by Biokit USA, pioneered the first walk in Ohio Herpes Clinic utilizing the first finger prick based Herpes Type2 specific IgG antibodies. He was later instrumental in having LabCorp introduce the first Type2 specific Herpes antibodies testing and for years the InforMed Centers has been a primary referral resource for Herpes Testing to the Cleveland Health Department.
More recently, Dr. Pupillo has made available on the web a special lab report printing tool called Health ePrints which he designed and used for years in his private practice. This tools significantly facilitates health providers-patients communication and offers a more rich, informative and colorful  experience in the reading and interpretation of lab reports.
The preventive work of the  InforMed Centers  has always been based on the following premises:
A) the world has entered the information age and people want to gain access to those information about themselves which were strictly limited to medical charts and obscured by medical language;
B) a drop of blood represents for people a direct, first hand knowledge of how changing behaviors and life styles could significantly affect their health;
C) preventive health practices have not to do with “what is” that needs to be fixed” but with “what is not” and requires us to be a vigilant, honest and astute observer of our body messages and behavior.

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