Dr. Lee Wan Ling is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Nursing at Universiti Malaya (UM). With a professional career spanning over three decades, Dr. Lee transitioned from clinical excellence in coronary nursing (1992–2000) to nursing education, joining UM in 2011. Since obtaining her PhD in 2018, Dr. Lee has established herself as a prolific researcher in the field of mobile health (m-Health), technology in nursing education, coronary nursing, and aged care (particularly in long-term facilities). Her expertise also extends to the cross-cultural adaptation and validation of questionnaires, health literacy, critical care, and non-communicable disease.

Her research portfolio is characterized by high-impact, interdisciplinary collaborations. Among her projects in aged care research include the local adaptation and implementation of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) iSupport for Dementia, in collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Disease Foundation Malaysia and Sunway University (UMG003C-2022) (iSupport- Malaysia website). This project aims to provide universal access to an online psychoeducational program for caregivers of people living with dementia through the international iSupport researcher network.

Dr. Lee leads an interdisciplinary program to develop caregiving credentials and a music care module for caregivers and older adults (IIRG003-2022 SAH), conducted in collaboration with the aged care industry and various NGOs (https://youtu.be/rB9hn6hcbBA). Furthermore, she serves as the Chair of the Education and Training subcommittee for KENDANA (Malaysian Caregivers Association)(https://www.kendana.com/portfolio ).

Driven by a keen interest in the application of technology in patient care, Dr. Lee is expanding the development of an electronic activity tracking system (EATs) prototype called UMFit™ (Grant RF009C-2018). She works alongside a team of UM researchers on the project "AI-Enabled Application for Personalization and Monitoring of Fitness Among Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients" (PRGS/1/2022/SKK01/UM/02/1) that aim to build an AI-enabled, hybrid cardiac rehabilitation program that involves international partners such as Huami and Huawei. Additionally, she is a core member of the UM-HEART-VR project (Erasmus+), which aims to improve communication and empathy soft skills through VR-based Problem-Based Learning (PBL) educational activities. (https://ehealth.um.edu.my/um-heart-vr ).