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Professional Practice Team

Marcel Blais   
Professional Practice Nursing

Marcel brings to the team 7 years of critical care experience in both Canada and the U.S.A.  His areas of interest include teaching, mentoring and working with an interprofessional team to accomplish change and practice standards.  He obtained his Diploma in nursing from Lambton College and his BScN from the University of Western Ontario. You can reach Marcel at mblais@ckha.on.ca, or at x 5274

Linda Brown
Professional Practice Nursing

 

Linda brings many years of surgical and operating room nursing clinical experience. Linda has a keen interest in improving the patient safety and the quality of patient care in the management of chronic and acute pain. She obtained her BScN from the University of Windsor and her MN from the University of Toronto. You can reach Linda at lbrown@ckha.on.ca, or at x 6592. 

Denise Dodman
Professional Practice Nursing

Denise Dodman is passionate about safe quality care of the elderly and brings years of experience in community health and geriatrics having worked as a nurse case manager, nurse consultant and psychogeriatric resource consultant. In 2000, she completed an Advanced Clinical Practice Fellowship through the RNAO and MOHLTC working with the Southwestern Regional Psychogeriatric/Geriatric . She received a BScN degree from the University of Windsor and is currently completing a MScN from York University. Denise is certified as a geriatric nurse through CNA. Denise is CKHA’a RNAO BPSO co-lead and is dedicated in supporting interprofessional collaborative & evidence based practice. Denise is one of CKHA’s Tri-Board Award recipients. You can reach Denise at dedodman@ckha.on.ca, or at x 6903.

Willi Kirenko
Professional Practice Nursing
Nurse Practitioner Coordinator

Willi brings to the team a passion for supporting staff development and improving quality and patient safety in Emergency and Mental Health & Addictions Care. She has been on staff at CKHA as a staff nurse, next as a Nurse Practitioner and finally in Professional Practice and as a Nurse Practitioner Coordinator. She graduated with an RN Diploma from St. Clair College, and then earned a Diploma in Adult Education from St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia and later, a BScN degree and Primary Health Care Nurse Practitioner certificate from the University of Windsor. She went on to complete the MN and Acute Care Adult Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Toronto. Willi is certified in Emergency Nursing through CNA. You can reach Willi at wkirenko@ckha.on.ca, or at x 6049.

Laurie Duffield
Professional Practice Corporate

 

Laurie brings to the team 30+ years experience as a nurse across a number of organizations, having worked in Critical Care/ED, clinical management, in investigations at College of Nurses and most recently in Professional Practice at CKHA. Her areas of interest include leadership development, development of both nursing and intraprofessional standards and professionalism at CKHA, and nursing professional education. Laurie received her Nursing Diploma at Mack Centre in St. Catherines and her BScN and MScN at the University of Windsor. You can reach Laurie at lduffield@ckha.on.ca, or at x 5104.

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