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Seong K. Mun

Seong K. Mun, PhD, is a professor and director of Arlington Innovation Center: Health Research at Virginia Tech, Arlington, VA, and engaged in research in artificial intelligence, health informatics, medical imaging, and patient safety for radiation oncology. He is also a senior imaging scientist for the Apollo Cancer Program involving the Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs, and National Cancer Institute.

Dr. Mun is the founding President and CEO of Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance (OSEHRA), established by the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2011 as a not-for-profit organization to promote open source innovations in health IT.

During the '80s and '90s, he was at Georgetown University Medical Center as Director of Imaging and Information Systems (ISIS) Center, where he championed the development of filmless radiology (a.k.a. PACS), global teleradiology, telemedicine, medical robotics, combat casualty care, and global disease surveillance. 

He received his PhD in physics from the State University of New York and completed an NIH medical physics fellowship at the Department of Radiology, University of Colorado Medical School.