Dr. Lee Wan Ling was a practicing clinical nurse in coronary ward from 1992 until she joined the College of Nursing, University Malaya Medical Centre as nurse educator in 2000.  She joined the Department of Nursing Science UM in 2011. She has more than three decades of experience in teaching nursing students and supervising them in clinical areas.

After obtaining her PhD in 2018, she is actively involved in research activities with keen interest in mobile-Health, technology in education, coronary nursing, aged care especially in long-term facilities, cross-cultural adaptation and validation of questionnaire, health literacy, nursing education, critical care and non-communicable diseases.

Among her current projects in aged care research include the local adaptions and implementation of World Health Organization’s iSupport for Dementia in collaboration with Alzheimer’s Disease Foundation Malaysia and Sunway University (UMG003C-2022). She leads an interdisciplinary program to develop caregiving credentialing and music care module for caregivers and older people (IIRG003-2022 SAH) in collaboration with aged care industry and related NGOs (https://youtu.be/rB9hn6hcbBA). She also leads the Education and Training subcommittee of KENDANA – Malaysian Caregivers Association (https://www.kendana.com/portfolio ). She is expanding the development of electronic activity tracking system (EATs) prototype called UMFit (Grant RF009C-2018) with a team of UM researchers working on project entitled AI-Enabled Application for Personalization and Monitoring of Fitness Among Cardiac Rehabilitation Patients (Prototype Research Grant: PRGS/1/2022/SKK01/UM/02/1) in collaboration with international partners such as Huami and Huawei to build a hybrid cardiac rehabilitation program.