Klaus Kuhn

Professor Kuhn is Chair of Medical Informatics and Director, Institute for Medical Statistics and Epidemiology at the Technische Universit‰t M¸nchen, where he is a Member of the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Informatics. He has formal training in internal medicine, statistics, and informatics and has spent much of his career in developing and evaluating architectures and applications for operational health care environments. He was instrumental in the development of a standard terminology and a documentation system for ultrasound studies that has been both published and used in a commercial product. He has improved tools for generation of applications embedded in health care professionals' work practice and these systems are widely used in Germany and internationally. Professor Kuhn has also been a frequent contributor to JAMIA and the AMIA Symposium in the areas of systems architectures and decision support, and he is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Medical Informatics, and of Methods of Information in Medicine. He serves as the President of the German Association for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, and is the German national representative to the International Medical Informatics Association. For these achievements that have had international impact, he is recognized by election as an international associate of the College.