Eike-Henner W. Kluge taught at various universities in the US and Canada before coming to the University of Victoria. In 1989 he was asked by the Canadian Medical Association to establish the Department of Ethics and Legal Affairs, and was its first Director. He is a tenured full professor in the Department of Philosophy at UVic. He specializes in such areas as biomedical ethics and health information ethics. Eike was the first expert witness in medical ethics recognized by Canadian courts, and has acted in that capacity in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario. and has presented invited testimony to Royal Commissions and Parliamentary Committees. He is a member of WG4 (Security in Health Information Systems) of the International Medical Informatics Association, was the lead author of its Code of Ethics (translated into 9 languages) and wrote the accompanying Handbook of Ethics for Health Informatics Professionals. In 2005 he received the Award for Research Excellenceof the UVic Faculty of Humanities, and in 2007 he was awarded the Abbyann Lynch Medal in Bioethics by the Royal Society of Canada. Current research interests include medical informatics, artificial intelligence in healthcare and related topics. A longer list about him is available on Wikipedia under his name.