Lisiane Pruinelli is the Interim Chair, Biobehavioral Nursing Science Department, an Associate Professor, University of Florida (UF) College of Nursing, with a joint appointment in the College of Medicine’s Department of Surgery. Dr. Pruinelli is a renowned expert in nursing informatics, data science, and artificial intelligence, with extensive experience leveraging big data, particularly in the realm of transplantation and chronic disease conditions. Her work has been pivotal in advancing predictive analytics in healthcare, and she has made significant contributions to the development of AI-driven models for chronic disease management. A recipient of multiple prestigious awards, Dr. Pruinelli is a fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association, and a co-founder and co-director of the Nursing and Artificial Intelligence Leadership Collaborative - the NAILCollab, and the FloGatorAI blog. She is also the co-chair for the Nursing Knowledge Big Data Science Initiative, a member of UF Learning Health System Steering Committee, and has been actively engaged in several organizations, such as the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (iEEE), the Association of Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, this later where she serves as a Board member. She has over 100 peer-reviewed publications in the intersection of informatics, data science, and chronic disease conditions and speaks nationally and internationally about the topic. Dr. Pruinelli holds a PhD from the University of Minnesota, and a BSN and MSc from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Son, Brazil.