Luis Kun, Ph.D.
After a 14 year career with IBM, Dr. Kun was the Director of Medical Systems Technology and Strategic Planning at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in LA.; the Senior IT Advisor to the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research where he formulated the IT vision and was the lead staff for HPCC program and Telehealth. He co-authored the Reports to the Congress on Telemedicine (1997) and on HIPAA Security. In July of 1997, he was invited speaker to the White House. He was largely responsible for the Telemedicine portion of the bill that became part of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Dr. Kun represented the DHHS Secretary at a Pan American Forum of Health Care Ministers on Telecommunications and the Health Care Industry in Mexico in 1997. As a Distinguished Fellow at the CDC (1999-2001) he was the Senior Computer Scientist for the Health Alert Network for Bioterrorism and later the Acting Chief Information Technology Officer for the National Immunization Program (NIP) where he formulated their IT vision on 10/2000.
Dr. Kun holds a BSEE; MSEE and Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering all from UCLA. Dr. Kun has made numerous seminal contributions to the information technology discipline. In March of 2003, he received the “2002 - IEEE-USA Citation of Honor Award”: “For exemplary contributions in the inception and implementation of a health care information technology vision in the United States. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He is a member of the Board of Directors of AIMBE and of the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES).
He is the Founding Chair of the IEEE-USA Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee and Founding Chair of the Bioterrorism & Homeland Security WG for the Medical Technology Policy Committee. He is currently the Editor in Chief of the “Handbook of Biomedical Information Technology” for Academic Press / Elsevier. He has lectured on medical and public health informatics, information technology and biomedical engineering in over 50 countries. He is in the IEEE Computer Science Distinguished Visitor Program for both the US and Latin America and is/was in the advisory board of many magazines and professional journals. He has served as an invited: Conference, track, session, tutorial, special symposia chair and/or publications, speaker / keynote speaker and in conference scientific committees, etc. over 200 times.
