Dr Luis Kun

Dr Luis Kun, IEEE Life Fellow, Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering, and the International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine, the 2025 and 2026 IEEE Past-President (President 2023 and 2024) for the Society on Social Implications of Technology and a Distinguished Emeritus Professor of National Security (CHDS/NDU). He works at the intersection of biomedical engineering with healthcare, public health, IT and National Security. He is the founding Editor in Chief of Springer’s Journal of Health and Technology 2010-2020. At the IEEE-USA he was the founding chair of the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) and Computer Based Patient Record (CBPR) WG, and the Bioterrorism and Homeland Security WG for the Medical Technology Policy Committee and founding chair of the Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee (CIPC). 

He spent 14 years at IBM and was the Director of Medical Systems Technology at Cedars Sinai Medical Center. He formulated the IT vision and was the lead staff for High Performance Computers and Communications program and Telehealth. In July 1997, he was an invited speaker to the White House and was largely responsible for the first Telemedicine Homecare Legislation signed by President Clinton in August 1997. As a Distinguished Fellow at the CDC and an Acting Chief IT Officer for the National Immunization Program, he formulated their IT vision on 10/2000. In 2009, he was named “Profesor Honoris Causa” by Favaloro University, (Argentina) and “Distinguished Visitor” by City of Puebla, Mexico in 2013. Since 2014, he serves as an Honorary Professor of the Electrical Engineering Department at the School of Engineering of the University (UDELAR) in Montevideo, Uruguay.  He received the Medal of Merit on October 2016 in Mexico by the National Unit of Engineering Associations and was named Visiting Professor by the National Technological University of Buenos Aires, Argentina in October 2017. On September 2024, he organized with IEEE-REACH an IEEE STEM Workshop in Puebla, Mexico that brought about 3000 pre-university students, their teachers and about 250 volunteers to the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE).  In his over 40 years with the IEEE, he has been a Distinguished Visitor Program for Computer Society, and Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for EMBS and SSIT where he chairs the DL Program since 2016.  He was a keynote / invited speaker, panelist about 600 times.