**Sonia Udod**

Dr. Sonia Udod has an active program of research in organizational leadership, the role of the nurse leader and nurse work environments. Her research focuses on nurse leader development, important for the creation of high-quality healthcare workplaces, leading to quality nurse, patient, and organizational outcomes. She is passionate about enhancing nurse leader capacity in the workplace and teaching students to be effective leaders. She has teaching expertise in leadership and management and advanced qualitative methods. She is committed to knowledge dissemination through peer-reviewed publications.

She has received numerous awards and scholarships, including the following: the Professional Nursing Award of Excellence in Research from the Association of Regulated Nurses of Manitoba, Top Researcher in Socio-Health, New Investigator Establishment Grant Award, Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation, Gail Donner Fellowship in Nursing, and Rosenstadt Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto.

She has held several positions in service as Chair of the Leadership, Management and Policy Interest Group, Canadian Association Schools of Nursing, and International Director for the Association of Leadership Science in Nursing, and she is an inaugural member of the Leadership Institute in the Asper School of Business, University of Manitoba.
