Prof. Jose M. Juarez, PhD, is an Associate Professor at UMU. He is a co-founder of the Medical Artificial Intelligence Lab (MedAI Lab) of the University of Murcia. He has been with the Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge Engineering (AIKE) group since 2004, holding a variety of research staff positions. He was a visiting PhD student at UNIPO and UNIVR during 2005 and 2006. He joined the Department of Neuroscience of the UAL in 2007 (postdoc). Since 2008, he has been a faculty member at the Department of Information and Communication Engineering, UMU. He was Vice Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science (2014-2017), where he also coordinated master studies and doctoral training programs. His research interests are Artificial Intelligence in general and its uses in healthcare. In particular, he is focused on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence and clinical decision support systems, including a wide variety of AI methods. He is a board member of the European Society of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIME) and co-founder and board member of the Spanish Society of AI in Biomedicine ( AI-BIOMED). He is also a Fellow of the Spanish Society of Artificial Intelligence (AEPIA) and the Spanish Society of Health Informatics (SEIS). He is a member of the Program Committee Board of IJCAI (period 2022-2024). He is an editorial board member of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal and an academic editor of PLOS ONE.