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President's Message
President's Message
The Unexpected Value of Volunteering
Luis Kun
retired
William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric
Defense Studies
National Defense University
Washington, DC 20319 USA
 This is my first column as the 2023-2024 President
of the IEEE Society on Social Implications of
Technology (SSIT). Many IEEE individuals belong
exclusively to an IEEE Society where they meet
others with similar interests and perhaps through
publications and conferences they network and
improve their professional skills. Other IEEE members
become part of a working group or committee,
thus increasing their chances of finding valuable
contacts as well as allowing others to observe their
knowledge and contributions to their field of interest.
The year 2022 was my 40th year of IEEE membership.
Being a volunteer at the IEEE had and still has
incredible effects on both my professional as well as
my personal life. I would like to use this first President's
Message of my term to share with you what, to
me, became the unexpected value of volunteering.
In 1986, as I moved with IBM from Dallas, TX,
USA, to Gaithersburg, MD, USA, two former EMBS
Presidents (Al Potvin and Joe Bronzino) insisted
that I become part of the IEEE USA Health Care Engineering
Policy Committee (HCEPC which in 1995
became the Medical Technology Policy Committee).
I was ignorant of anything related to Technology
Policy, so at first, I was reluctant to do this. But I
discovered that most U.S. Congressional leaders and
their staffers were uneducated in regard to science
and technology. I felt there was an important role
for engineers to educate them. At the HCEPC, I created
and led the High Performance Computers and
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Communications (HPCC) and Electronic Medical
Record (EMR) Working Group. The Voluntary use of
Healthcare Identifiers and the Genetic Information
Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (in terms of medical
insurance and employment discrimination) are two
examples of IEEE-USA Position Statements produced
by volunteers from this group, approved by the IEEE
Board of Governors, and later distributed among
U.S. congressional leaders.
In February 1995, when I ended my directorship
position with Cedars Sinai Medical Center in
Los Angeles, I received a call from the Director of
the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
(AHCPR's) Center for Information Technology,
Dr. Mike Fitzmaurice, an economist who also happened
to be a volunteer at the HCEPC. Mike heard
me speak on HPCC and related topics at the HCEPC
and his Agency was suddenly funded and needed
someone to represent them with the Federal community
on related topics. In 1986 and 1991, then U.S.
Senator Al Gore successfully introduced HPCC Bills
in the Senate, and AHCPR was funded on Computer
Patient Records, Telemedicine, and Computer Decision
Support Systems. The agency needed someone
to lead them with 15 other Federal Agencies in these
fields including the Next-Generation Internet. I was
offered and accepted to be AHCPR's Senior IT Advisor
to what became one of the best and most fulfilling
jobs of my professional career. I prepared their program
descriptions in three consecutive documents:
" Supplement to the President's Fiscal Years 1997-1998--1999
Budgets, " published in the President's
HPCC Implementation Plan. I was also a co-writer
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