Professor Sonja McIlfatrick is a Professor in Nursing and Palliative Care and Dean of the Doctoral College at Ulster University, UK. She is a distinguished academic whose career has spanned clinical practice, academia, research, and scholarship. Sonja is an internationally recognized leader in palliative care research publishing extensively in the area, with over 150 research outputs and has a successful history of grant acquisition. Her current research interests include, palliative care in chronic illness, management of clinical symptoms; decision making at end of life; and public health approach to palliative care. Her hobbies include travelling, running and shopping!