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Ron Leder (EMBS History Committee chair 2007-09, MX), Began his professional career in Biomedical Engineering with his first research job at the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1977. After 12 years of basic and clinical sleep research and as well as clinical practice, he was recruited by the University of Wisconsin Madison to develop and direct a sleep research laboratory for an NIH funded research program. It was there that he met John Webster, Willis Tompkins, and Dan Geisler. While earning his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2000). Ron became familiar with all 39 IEEE technical societies assisting John Webster on the Wiley Encyclopedia of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Ron was attracted to Mexico by a Wisconsin colleague to help start a modern neurorehabilitation laboratory and now feels he has a place in Latin America. Neurorehabilitation and sleep & wakefulness are platforms for studying how the brain works. Ron has been an IEEE member since 1969 and is now an IEEE senior member and an EMBS distinguished lecturer. Ron was the publications chair for EMBC 2003 in Cancun and ran a history session at that conference. He hopes EMBS will expand its history activities in cooperation with the IEEE History Center as we approach the 125th anniversary of IEEE (2009). History is a reference for experts disguised as a story that can be used and enjoyed by all.
