Chunlei Tang, PhD
Founding Academic Director, NurseKnowsNurse™
Role at NurseKnowsNurse™
As Founding Academic Director of the Nurse Knows Nurse™, Dr. Tang provides academic and strategic leadership for practitioner-led research and responsible innovation initiatives. She defines research directions, governance principles, and ethical boundaries that guide project-based collaboration across clinical, research, and technical domains.
Dr. Tang works with program leads, principal investigators, and collaborators to ensure alignment with the ecosystem’s nurse-led, public-interest mission, supporting transparent governance and accountable, practice-informed research development.
Professional Background
Dr. Tang is a researcher and data scientist with formal nursing training and more than a decade of experience working within Harvard Medical School–affiliated research environments. Her professional background centers on academic research, data science, and health systems innovation rather than direct clinical practice.
Her work emphasizes practice-informed research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and ethical decision-making. Drawing on nursing perspectives, she contributes to the design of data infrastructure, real-world evidence frameworks, and governance models for data-driven innovation in health and biomedical contexts. She is also the author of scholarly and professional work addressing data capital, data governance, and the data economy in healthcare and related industries.
Areas of Focus
Within the Nurse Knows Nurse™, Dr. Tang’s work focuses on:
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Data economy and data capital in health and biomedical contexts
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Practice-informed research and real-world evidence generation
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Governance of data-driven innovation and responsible AI
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Cross-disciplinary collaboration among clinicians, researchers, and technical experts
Professional Service
In addition to her leadership within Nurse Knows Nurse™, Dr. Tang has contributed professional service to scientific and technical communities. She has held finance-related leadership roles within international and regional professional organizations, including ACM and IEEE, supporting organizational operations and community activities.
She also holds U.S. Enrolled Agent status, reflecting formal training in federal taxation and regulatory compliance. This background informs her work on organizational accountability, data governance, and responsible stewardship in research and innovation settings.
Network Contact
- ctang at rnknowsrn.org