Journey To Success

JUDITH SHAMIAN, RN, PhD, LLD (hon), D.Sci (hon), FAAN, is president emeritous and immediate past president and CEO of the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON). Dr. Shamian is the immediate  past president of the Canadian Nurses Association (CNA). She is also a professor at the Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing at the University of Toronto, a co-investigator with the Nursing Health Services Research Unit, and was previously the executive director of the Office of Nursing Policy at Health Canada and vice-president of nursing at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto for 10 years and has held various academic positions since 1989. Shamian obtained her PhD from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, her master’s in public health from New York University, and her baccalaureate in community nursing from Concordia University in Montreal. She is the recipient of numerous awards including, the Golden Jubilee Medal (2002) from the Governor General of Canada, the Award of Merit (2004) from CNA and the Canadian Fe