Prof. Luis Kun is a Senior Research Professor of Homeland Security at the IRM College of the National Defense University where he developed and is the Course Manager for the following curricula: Homeland Security Information Management (HLS), Homeland Security Information Management: Tools & Techniques (HST), Protection of Critical Infrastructures and Key Assets (CIP), Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Intelligent Agents and Decision Support Systems. He graduated from the Merchant Marine Academy in Uruguay and holds a BSEE; MSEE and Ph.D. degree in Biomedical Engineering all from UCLA. 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 has made numerous seminal contributions to the information technology, healthcare and public health disciplines. He received many awards including 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 the Founding Chair of the IEEE-USA: Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee; the Bioterrorism & Homeland Security WG (for the Medical Technology Policy Committee) and the Electronic Health Record and High Performance Computers and Communications WG (former HCEPC). He is currently the Editor in Chief of the “Handbook of Biomedical Information Technology” for Academic Press / Elsevier. He is a member of the Executive Board and the Board of Directors of AIMBE and the American Association of Engineering Societies (AAES). He also is an Advisor to many National and International diverse organizations such as: Advisory Board (AB) to Caring Technologies /TalkAutism; AB the Boston Children’s Hospital (at Harvard and MIT) Biodefense Project (Information Systems for Bioterrorism Preparedness project); AB to Spain’s Telemedicine Networks (ISCIII); Member of the Joint WG on Telemedicine; Scientific AB – Medical and Care Compunetics (Netherlands); Advisory Committee of Collaborative Communications Summit (Health and IT) 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 and the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Distinguished Visitor Program 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 250 times. He was recently elected to the IEEE –Society of Social Implications of Technology Board of Governors.

Prof. Jack Li has been a pioneer of Medical Informatics research in Taiwan. He is the founder of the Graduate Institute of Medical Informatics in Taipei Medical University and also the President of Taiwan Association for Medical Informatics from 1999 to 2003. Due to his achievement in establishing Medical Information exchange mechanisms among hospitals and his dedication to information technology application in patient safety and care, he was awarded as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the Year in 2001. He has been the Principle Investigators of many national projects in Electronic Health Record, Patient Safety Informatics and Medical e-learning. He is also author of 80 scientific papers and 3 college-level textbooks.

Currently, he is the Professor and Chair of the Institute of Biomedical Informatics of National Yang-Ming University. He is the President of Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics.