Dr. Luis Kun graduated from the Merchant Marine Academy in Uruguay and holds a BSEE; MSEE and a Ph.D. degree in BME all from UCLA.  A (Lifetime) Fellow of the IEEE, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering.  He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of National Security Affairs (CHDS) and was Professor of Homeland Security at the National Defense University (2003-2015).  He is the Editor in Chief of Springer’s Journal of Health and Technology.  He spent 14 years at IBM; was Director of Medical Systems Technology at Cedars Sinai Medical Center.  As Senior IT Advisor to AHCPR, he formulated the IT vision and was the lead staff for High-Performance Computers and Communications program and Telehealth.  In July 1997, as an invited speaker to the White House, he was largely responsible for the first Telemedicine Homecare Legislation signed by President Clinton, August 1997.  Represented the DHHS Secretary at a Forum of Health Care Ministers on Telecommunications and the Health Care Industry in Mexico.  While a Distinguished Fellow at the CDC, as Acting Chief IT Officer for the National Immunization Program, he formulated their IT vision on 10/2000.  Dr. Kun received many awards including AIMBE’s first-ever Fellow Advocate Award in 2009; IEEE-USA Citation of Honor Award, “For exemplary contributions in the inception and implementation of a health care IT vision in the US.” 2011 Golden Core Award by the IEEE CS.  Named: “Profesor Honoris Causa” Favaloro University, (Argentina); “Distinguished Visitor” by City of Puebla, Mexico (9/4/2013).  He is/was in the IEEE Distinguished Visitor Program for the CS, Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), and the DL SSIT Chair. He served as an Honorary Professor of the Electrical Engineering Dept. at the School of Engineering of the University (UDELAR) in Montevideo, Uruguay in 2014.  He received the Medal of Merit on October 20, 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.