He was a Professor of National Security Affairs at the Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies (2011-2015) at the National Defense University, where the prior 8 years he was the Senior Research Professor of Homeland Security at the i-College. He is Editor in Chief of Springer's Journal of Health and Technology.  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 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.  Luis Kun is the founding chair of the IEEE-USA Electronic Health Record and High Performance Computers and Communications WG; and the Bioterrorism / Homeland Security WG, and the Critical Infrastructure Protection Committee. A Fellow of the IEEE and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, Kun received AIMBE's first-ever Fellow Advocate Award in 2009. His IEEE-USA Citation of Honor Award reads, "For exemplary contributions in the inception and implementation of a health care IT vision in the US." He sits in many professional and journal Boards including the IFMBE where he chairs the Global Citizen Safety and Security WG. Universidad Favaloro from Buenos Aires, Argentina named him "Profesor Honoris Causa" on December 2009. In 2011 he received the Golden Core Member Award by the IEEE Computer Society.  He was named "Visitante Distinguido" by the City of Puebla, Mexico on September 4, 2013.