Associate Professor
College of Nursing
Rady Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Manitoba
Dr. Udod’s program of research focuses on nurse leader development critical to 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 has a passion for teaching students to be effective leaders. Findings emerging from the LEAD Outcomes Research have significant potential to inform and improve leadership practices and health services through translating relevant knowledge for nurse leaders.
Her teaching expertise includes leadership and management, research methods, advanced qualitative methods, and has taught in undergraduate and graduate level nursing courses using various teaching modalities. She supervises and mentors graduate and doctoral students in their capstone, thesis, and dissertation projects, and welcomes new students.
Dr. Udod received the Top Researcher in Socio-Health, New Investigator Establishment Grant Award, Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation (SHRF), Martha Donavan Leadership Award, Gail Donner Fellowship in Nursing, and Rosenstadt Doctoral Dissertation Award, Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto. She is a member of the Academy of Management, Council on Graduate Education for Administration in Nursing, and the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology (IIQM), University of Alberta.