Dr Luis Kun of Georgetown University Medical Center

A combination of factors affects Society today, in ways unimaginable, to many, a few years ago, in the ways we: work, study, teach, read and write, have fun, find out the news, buy, sell and generally in the way we communicate and even the total way we live. Globalization, and the constant use of technologies in academia, industry and government has created a new generation of socio-economic dilemmas that are associated not only to biomedical and clinical engineering and electro-medicine but to many other disciplines. Professionally, new requirements have and will open new opportunities to those that have knowledge in a spectrum of areas that include biosensors, geographical information systems, nanotechnology, intelligent agents, and many other areas. Medicine and Public Health experts will have to incorporate in their teams, individuals that would be able to develop and maintain new technologies, within their respective fields. In many cases, solutions used in other fields, were used to resolve problems in this one. This in turn provides solutions that are much are more cost-effective solutions. NOTE: This talk covers a wide range of topics that could be of interest to heterogeneous audiences that include not only computer experts, but biomedical, systems and communication engineers, technologists, physicians, nurses, epidemiologists and surveillance personnel associated with public health and epidemics, agencies and departments in charge of protecting our food, our drinking water, our environment, our borders, etc.

Biography:

Dr. Kun graduated from the Merchant Marine Academy in Uruguay and holds a BSEE; MSEE and Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering all from UCLA. He is a Life 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 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 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. 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 for the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) and the DL SSIT Chair. (2014) Honorary Professor of the Electrical Engineering Dept. at the School of Engineering of the University (UDELAR) in Montevideo, Uruguay. He received the Medal of Merit on October 20, 2016 in Mexico by the National Unit of Engineering Associations and named Visiting Professor by the National Technological University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2017.

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