Carolyn Harmon serves as Director and Professor for the University of South Carolina, directing the nursing informatics and healthcare leadership programs. She also serves as Core Faculty for the Center for Advancing Chronic Care Outcomes through Research and Innovation (ACORN) and was recently selected to be a Propel AI Scholar and a Provost's AI Teaching Fellow. She is a Past President of the American Nursing Informatics Association and serves on work groups for the Nursing Knowledge Big Data Science initiative, among others. She has been a nursing academic pioneer, educator, researcher, and administrator in roles such as dean, chair, director, nurse scientist, and informatics specialty lead at higher education institutions in Arizona, Minnesota, Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina. Dr. Harmon earned her PhD from the University of South Carolina and DNP with an Executive Leadership focus from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.