Dr. Luis Kun is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of National Security Affairs at the W. Perry, Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies at the National Defense University (2011-14), where the prior 8 years he was the Senior Research Professor of Homeland Security at the iCollege.  He was the 2023 & 24 President of the IEEE Society for Social Implications of Technology (SSIT), currently (2025 & 2026) Past President. He is Founding Editor in Chief of the Journal of Health and Technology, was Chairman of the Global Citizen Safety and Security WG for the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE) and is a Subject Matter Expert for the Federal Inter Agency Board on CBRNE.   He developed and was the Course Manager for the following curricula: Homeland Security Information Management (HLS), HLS Tools & Techniques, Protection of Critical Infrastructures and Key Assets, GIS, and Intelligent Agents. He graduated from the Merchant Marine Academy in Uruguay and holds a BSEE; MSEE and Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering all from UCLA. He spent 14 years at IBM, where he developed the first six clinical applications for the IBM PC; was one of the pioneers on bedside terminals for Intensive Care; and a developer of a semi-expert, real-time, clinical decision support system: PC/PATSS.  He was also the technical manager of the Nursing Point of Care System at IBM. Dr. Kun was the biomedical engineer in the team of four that developed the first Teleradiology system and the first Picture Archival and Communications Systems to run on an IBM platform. Later he was Director of Medical Systems Technology and Strategic Planning at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in LA. As the Senior IT Advisor to the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research (AHCPR) he formulated the IT vision and was the lead staff for HPCC program and Telehealth. He prepared AHCPR’s program descriptions in three consecutive: “Supplement to the President’s Fiscal Years 1997-1998 and 1999 Budgets” published in the President’s HPCC Implementation Plan and a co-writer of the following Committee on Computing, Information and Communication Blue Books: “Advancing the Frontiers of Information Technology”; “Technologies for the 21st Century” and “Networked Computing for the 21st Century”, NSTC/ Executive Office of the President (97, 98 and 99). He co-authored the Reports to the Congress on Telemedicine (1997) and on HIPAA Security. In July 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 signed by President Clinton on August 5, 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 held academic adjunct teaching / research positions since 1980 at: UCLA School of Medicine, UT Arlington and UTSMC in Dallas; he was a Senior Scientist and an Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine at UTMB Galveston, School of Medicine, and a Research Professor of Medical Informatics and Inf. Technology at Rutgers University in New Jersey.  In the Department of Biostatistics at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University, he wrote the syllabus and taught the following courses in the new curricula of Public Health Informatics: Database Management Systems and Artificial Intelligence.  Dr. Kun has made numerous seminal contributions to biomedical engineering, IT, healthcare, public health and national security disciplines. He received from the US Surgeon General the 1998 Administrator’s Award of Merit: “For exceptional dedication and professional achievement that have greatly enhanced the recognition of AHCPR’s research in the HighPerformance Computing and Communications Program.”  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”, the 2009 American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering’s (AIMBE) first-ever Fellow Advocate Award which is presented to “a Fellow who has made outstanding contributions to advancing federal policies assisting the medical and biological engineering field”. He is a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering and of the International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine.  He is a member of the IEEE Eta Kappa Nu Board of Governors. He is the Founding Chair of the IEEE-USA: Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee; the Bioterrorism & Homeland Security WG and of the Electronic Health Record and HighPerformance Computers and Communications WG. 2009 Named “Profesor Honoris Causa” by Universidad Favaloro from Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2011 received the Golden Core Member Award by the IEEE Computer Society (CS). He is or was in the Board of Governors or Directors, Advisory board and administrative councils of many organizations, magazines and professional journals including: AIMBE, AAES, ICMCC the IEEE-SSIT, CS, EMBS and the IFMBE. He has lectured on medical and public health, information technology and biomedical engineering in over 85 countries.  He has served as an invited: keynote speaker, panelist, special symposia chair and/or invited speaker 600 times. He is/was in the IEEE Distinguished Visitor Program & Distinguished Contributor for Computers, and Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for EMBS and Chairs SSIT’s DL Program. 2013 named “Distinguished Visitor” by the City of Puebla, Mexico. 2014 named Honorary Professor of the EE Dept. at the School of Engineering of the University in Montevideo, Uruguay. Named 2017 Visiting Prof. by the National Technological University of Buenos Aires Argentina. Received Mexico’s Medal of Merit from the National Unit of Engineering Associations. 2018, elected IFMBE Honorary Life Member.