Niki Pham is the founder and writer of RN Forward, a nurse-focused healthtech publication. A critical care nurse with 8 years of clinical experience, she has spent the past 3+ years researching the economics of nurse entrepreneurship, culminating in the RN Forward nurse-founded company database, a growing publicly available dataset of nurse-founded healthcare companies. Her research on the economic viability of nurse-founded companies was conducted through a Commission on Nurse Reimbursement fellowship under the mentorship of Donna Nikitas, Dean of Nursing, at Rutgers University. She is a member of Scrub Collective, a clinician-focused venture capital community and consults for healthtech companies at the intersection of nursing, AI, and innovation.