Jun Nishihira is a Professor at the Department of Medical Management and Informatics and a Director of the Center of Health Information Science Center, Hokkaido Information University. He graduated from Hokkaido University School of Medicine (1979). After he obtained a Medical Degree (MD) from Hokkaido University (Sapporo, Japan) (1992), he received clinical training at the Hokkaido University Hospital, where he specialized in Hematology and Immunology. Following the clinical training, he joined basic medical research, focusing on infectious diseases and immunology at Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake-Forest University, Winston Salem, NC (1984-1985). After returning to Japan, he obtained a Ph.D. (Biochemistry) from Hokkaido University. He became a Lecturer and, later, an Associate Professor of the Department of Biochemistry of the medical school, specializing in the clinical trial system for functional food, Diabetes, and Immunology. He became a Professor at Hokkaido Information University (HIU) (2006) and is currently the President of HIU.