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Juan María Funes (30 May 1907 - 23 August 1984) was a Guatemalan physician and surgeon who specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). He studied at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the National University of Guatemala, currently the University of San Carlos of Guatemala, and for his graduation thesis he conducted in the San Juan de Dios General Hospital a study on female genital prolapse. Within his specialty, he worked as a health administrator and researcher for the Ministry of Public Health and Social Assistance of Guatemala, the World Health Organization (WHO), and the United States Public Health Service (USPHS). In 1945, while working at the Venereal Disease Research Laboratory in Staten Island, New York, he suggested to his American colleagues to conduct research on STDs in Guatemala, and subsequently he was one of the Guatemalan medical doctors involved in the experiments on sexually transmitted diseases performed in that country with human beings between 1946 and 1948, and directed by the American surgeon John Charles Cutler. On the results of these experiments, between 1949 and 1953 he published three articles in the Bulletin of the Pan-American Sanitary Bureau, currently the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), and in 1962 he co-founded the Guatemalan Academy of Dermatology, Syphilology and Leprology.