Following an adventurous stint in the RAF providing global logistic support to No.1 Harrier Squadron,Leon began a successful career in Sales Marketing & Management, Export and Training. He has recruited managed and trained key personnel in diverse industries across the UK,Australia and the Middle East.


Since 1995 Leon has provided a unique publishing service on behalf of leading Hospitals in Singapore involving the presentation of a vast array of Hospital facts condensed into an easily understood and durable medium utilized by patients,visitors and staff.


Leon advises Pharmaceutical,Medical and Health focused vendors strategies and concepts for Hospital opportunities. He provides niche marketing services on behalf of national and multinational organisations with brand names on pharmacy shelves, and innovators of medical equipment and devices.


With considerable expertise as a Media Manager within the Hospitality industry in Australia, SE Asia & Micronesia he sees the benefits of Hospitals providing a 5 Star Experience to Visitors. Among his Client portfolio are Australian Tourism Authorities, the National Trust of Australia, Chambers of Commerce,and many leading international Hotels in the Asia Pacific region.

Ryuji Kohno received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in computer engineering from Yokohama National Univ.(YNU) in 1979 and 1981, respectively and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Univ. of Tokyo in 1984. Since 1998 he has been a Professor in YNU. During 1984-1985 he was a Visiting Scientist in Dept.EE, Univ. of Toronto. Since 2007, he is also a Finnish Distinguished Professor (FiDiPro) in Univ. of Oulu, Finland. Moreover, he was also a director of SONY ATL during 1998-2002 and was a director of the UWB Tech. Inst. during 2002-2006, currently a program coordinator of Medical ICT Inst. of National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), and a principal leader of MEXT 21st century COE program on “Creation of Future Social Infrastructure Based on ICT” during 2002-2007 and is currently a principal leader of MEXT Global COE program on “Innovative Integration between Medicine and Engineering Based on ICT,” during 2008-2013 as well as a director of Medical ICT Center in YNU.


Prof. Kohno was elected to be a BoG member of the IEEE Information Theory Society three times on 2000, 2002, and 2006. He was an editor of the IEEE Trans. Information Theory during 1995-1998, currently is that of the IEEE Trans. Communications since 1994 and that of the IEEE Trans. Intelligent Transport Systems since 2000. He is a fellow of IEICE (Institute of Electronics, Information, Communications Engineers), and was a vice-president of Engineering Sciences Society of IEICE, an editor-in chief of the IEICE Trans. Fundamentals and also the vice-president of SITA (Society of Information Theory and its Applications). Prof. Kohno has contributed for organizing many international conferences, such as a TPC co-chair of the IEEE ISSSTA’92, PIMRC’93, Information Theory Workshop (ITW’93), PIMRC’99, IWUWBS’03, and a general chair of IEEE ISIT’03, UWBST&IWUWB’04, IWUWBST’05, ISMICT’06&07, ISSSTA&ISITA2010 and so on. He is also a chair of International Steering Committee of ISSSTA. He was awarded IEICE Greatest Contribution Award and NTT DoCoMo Mobile Science Award in 1999 and 2002, respectively.

He is now a Professor of EMS of Tokai University School of Medicine, a vice-Rapporteur for eHealth of ITU-D, and an invited researcher of the NICT Koganei, Japan.


He received the M.D. and Ph.D.(biomedical engineering )from Tokai University School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan, in 1980 and 1988, in addition, Ph.D.(applied informatics) from University of Hyogo Graduated School of Applied Informatics in 2009. In 1985, he has finished his chief resident on general surgery including surgical oncology, trauma, emergency, and critical care. After general surgery, he joined the Emergency Medical Service of Tokai University Hospital. For years, he has researched and developed the 4Ts (Telecommunications, Transportations, Triage, and early Treatment) for emergency medical care, especially telecommunications using with CS-2, ETS-V, and other satellites in cooperation with the NICT

Adam has several years of professional working experience in the IT industry before venturing into Health IT in 2002 where he specialized in Medical Imaging Informatics and related technologies before moving onto the wider spectrum of Healthcare Informatics.


An active contributing member to several international Technology and Health IT initiatives, Adam runs BinaryHealthCare, a social enterprise advocating Health IT as an enabler for “better patient care at lower cost” by raising the standards of health informatics through training, continuing education and providing a vendor neutral community for knowledge exchange and collaboration.


A recognized subject matter expert on the area of Health IT, Adam is an experienced conference speaker and an adjunct lecturer with Republic Polytechnic Singapore where he is currently developing curriculums pertaining to Health IT.


Adam is listed in Marquis Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare and holds the honor of being the first inductee of the Microsoft Certified Professional Hall of Fame International.

Affiliation

Professor, Department of computational biology,
School of Biomedical sciences, 
Department of Biomedical informatics.
Medical Research Institute
Director, Biomedical Science PhD program
Director, Information center for medical sciences


Education
1974 - Graduate from Department of the University of Tokyo, Faculty of Engineering,
1981 - Received Dr. Med. from the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Tokyo..
1983 - Received Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Engineering at the   University of Tokyo.   


Academic Post
1982 - Assistant professor at the Institute for Medical Electronics, school of Medicine, the University of Tokyo. 
1982 - 1984 Visiting scientist, at Uppsala University and on simulation of electric activity of the heart in Linkoping University, Sweden.
1990 - Visiting scientist in MIT Laboratory of Computer Science
1991 - Professor of biomedical Informatics, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University.
2003 - Professor of computational biology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University.
2003 - 2007 - President of Japan Association of Medical Informatics.
2003 - Present - Director of Information center for Medicine.
2006 - Present - Dean of Biomedical Science PhD Program.

Current Position
1996-current Professor and Chairman of Department of Urology and the Director of University Library, Nara Medical University, Education, Post-doctorial Training and Academic position


Academic position
1966-1972 Nara Medical University, Nara JAPAN
1972-1973 Resident in Urology, Nara Medical University Hospital
1973-1974 Medical staff in Dept. of Urology, Nara Medical University
1974-1977 Chief in Dept. of Urology, Prefectural Nara Hospital
1977-1979 Research fellows of Dept. of Pathology, Northwestern Univ. Chicago, U.S.A.
1979-1984 Associate, Dept. of Urology, Nara Medical University
1984-1996 Associate professor, Dept. of Urology, Nara Medical University
1996- present Professor, Dept. of Urology, Nara Medical University
2000-2002   Vice president of Nara Medical University Hospital
2001-present Chief of Hemodialysis Unit, Nara Medical University Hospital
2004-2008 Director of Clinical education, Nara Medical University
2008-present Director of the University Library, Nara Medical University


Office address:  
Nara Medical University, Department of Urology
840 Shijo-cho, Kashihara, Nara 　Japan　634-8522
Office telephone:  +81-744-22-3051, 22-9282(FAX) 
e-mail:  .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

Received B.Sc.dgree in applied physics from Miyazaki University in 1974, and Ph.D. degree in system control engineering from Hiroshima University, Japan in 1974 and 1990, respectively. He is a Professor in Nagoya University. His reserch interests include evaluation of image quality for diagnostic X-ray image, analysis and processing of medical image and computer aided diagnosis. He is a president of Japanese Society of Radiological Technology, a vice president of Japan Radiology Congress and an expert of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).


Contact No.:
Department of Radiological Technology, School of Health Sciences, Nagoya University
1-1-20 Daiko-Minami, Higashi-Ku,Nagoya, 461-8673, JAPAN
Phone +81(JPN)-52-719-1554
E-mail: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

1991-1997
Mie University Graduate School of Medicine


1997-1999
Internship and Residency in Radiology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University


1999-2006
Assistant Professor in Radiology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University


2006-2009
Assistant Professor in Radiology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University Medical Center East


2009-Present
Lecturer in Radiology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University Medical Center East