DR  K C  LUN CEO, Gateway Consulting, Professor (Adjunct) School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University and Past President, International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA)

Contacts: School of Biological Sciences Nanyang Technological University 60 Nanyang Drive Singapore 637551 Tel:     +65 6316 2816       Fax:    +65 6791 3856          kclun@ntu.edu.sg

Dr K C Lun is Chief Executive Officer of Gateway Consulting, which he established when he retired from his professorial appointment at the School of Biological Sciences, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in October 2006.  He still holds an Adjunct Professorial appointment at SBS.  Prior to his retirement, he had served as Director of the double-degree program in Biomedical Sciences & Chinese Medicine as well as founding Vice-Dean (Academic), SBS (2001-2005) and NTU Dean of Admissions (2005).  Prior to joining NTU in July 2001, he was an academic staff of the Dept of Community, Occupational and Family Medicine at National University of Singapore (NUS) from 1976-2001 and Director of the NUS Medical Informatics Program from 1996-2001.  The MIP was jointly funded by the National Science and Technology Board (now renamed as A*STAR) and the Ministry of Education as a strategic research program to conduct upstream, basic research and to build core capability in medical informatics. At NUS, he also taught biostatistics and medical computing to medical undergraduates and postgraduates (since 1976) and pioneered the use of computer-based approach to biostatistics teaching and problem-solving at the medical school (since 1982). In recognition of his efforts in promoting the use of IT in the teaching of biostatistics and the promotion of IT in medical education, Dr Lun was presented with the inaugural NUS Teaching Excellence Award for 'Use of IT in Teaching' in October 1998. In the mid-1980s, Dr Lun developed an interest in medical informatics and his research work in this field led to the recognition of the NUS as the 6th World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Health Informatics in 1990.

Internationally, Dr Lun served as President of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) from 2001-4, and Founding President of the Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI) from 1994-7.  Dr Lun has made numerous contributions to the work of WHO, IMIA, IDRC, UNDP and several other international agencies as a temporary advisor/consultant, mainly in the area of health informatics.  He was the creator of the 'Cyberspace Hospital', the first virtual hospital on the World Wide Web, which was launched in May 1995 and accessed by over 120 countries world wide. The virtual hospital was later replaced by 'Health ONE', a multilingual, multimedia health information resource funded by the National Computer Board of Singapore for implementation on the nationwide Singapore ONE network. For its pioneering work in the development of a multilingual, multimedia health portal on the Internet, 'Health ONE' was awarded first prize in the scientific poster competition of INET '98, an international conference on the Internet held in Geneva, Switzerland in 1998 and organized by the Internet Society.

For his efforts in promoting Singapore through his international activities in medical informatics, Dr Lun won the Singapore Internationale award given by the Singapore International Foundation in March 2001. 

On 2 August 2002, Dr Lun was one of the 5 recipients, selected from among 51 nominees, of the "Excellence for Singapore 2002 Award".  The "Excellence for Singapore" Award is set up by the Singapore Totalisator Board (Tote Board) to "recognise and honour individuals, groups of individuals, or organisations that bring credit to Singapore by being among the best in their areas of activity in Asia or in the world" (award citation).

Media Features

Interview given to Healthcare Informatics (April 2001)
Feature on NUS News Website (April 2001)
Straits Times feature (November 2001)
Excellence for Singapore 2002 Award (ST 03 Aug 2002)