Seong K. Mun Faculty Profile

Dr. Seong K. Mun has been an adjunct professor at Georgetown for several years, teaching the US Healthcare System and occasionally lecturing on artificial intelligence as an integral part of digital transformation in patient care.

Dr. Mun retired from Virginia Tech in 2025, where he served as a professor and director of the Arlington Innovation Center for Health Research. His research focus was health informatics, imaging, and artificial intelligence. In 2024, he published a book, Artificial Intelligence for Radiation Oncology.

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

Dr. Mun served as an adjunct professor at the Catholic University of Korea to develop
health informatics research programs.

During the 80s and 90s, he was at Georgetown University Medical Center as the Director of Imaging and Information Systems (ISIS) Center, championing the development of filmless radiology (a.k.a. PACS), global teleradiology, telemedicine, e-health, health informatics, medical robotics, combat casualty care, and global disease surveillance by winning grants and contracts exceeding $100 million.

At Georgetown, he also served as Associate Vice President at the Georgetown Medical Center, coordinating congressional interest projects for the University by working with the Office of Federal Relations. He called on both the House and the Senate almost weekly for 10 years.

Prior to Georgetown, he was a radiology faculty at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City where his team built one of the first high-field MRI systems in the world.

He received the General Thurman Award for Excellence in Advanced Medical Technologies from the US Army for his contribution to combat casualty care research and development.

Seong K. Mun received PhD in physics from the State University of New York, Albany, and completed an NIH medical physics fellowship at the Department of Radiology, University of Colorado Medical Center.