Dr. Montgomery, previously known as Dr. Prapanjarensin, received her BSN from Thammasat University, Thailand and a PhD in Nursing from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her expertise is on nurse burnout, circadian misalignment, nursing work environment, and medication administration error and patient safety grade. Her long-term research interests are nurse burnout and how it impacts patient and nurse safety. Her dissertation was on nurse burnout and patient safety. While she was working on a PhD, she was involved in projects with Dr. Patrician such as circadian misalignment in nurses impact patient and nurse safety and mapping and sustaining a personal nurse leadership journey; these opportunities had provided her with an excellent background in conducting research including data collection, data management, data analysis, and manuscript preparation.