Felicia Kontopidis is a Registered Nurse with SE Health, formerly known as Saint Elizabeth.  Felicia has worked in Toronto as a visiting nurse where she practiced direct patient care for over six years.  Throughout the years, Felicia has supported and continues to support different roles where her nursing experience in Home and Community care continue to flourish.  Working in different capacities, Felicia has demonstrated nursing leadership in roles such as Clinical Intake Nurse, Clinical Practice Coach, and Respiratory Nurse Champion.  Felicia has been involved in new innovative supporting virtual care.

Recently, Felicia supported nurses nationally throughout the organization as a Clinical Practice Resource Nurse.  In 2017, Felicia completed an RNAO AMS fellowship involving a self-directed learning project themed ‘Building Cultural Competence in Nursing to Enhance Patient Centred Care Amongst the Underserved and Disenfranchised’.  Today Felicia works with the organization as a Clinical Solutions
Consultant, where she contributes her clinical experience in home and community care to support different teams in the planning, design, and implementation of new and innovative health care programs.  Recently, Felicia and SE Health CEO, Shirlee Sharkey, were guests on the RBC series, “RBC Disruptors.”  Together they were interviewed by award winning scholar John Stackhouse, where they shared, from the home health perspective, their experiences with technology, skills development, and how innovation is changing health care.

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Emily Belita is currently a PhD student in the School of Nursing at McMaster University. Her research interests involve exploring the advancement of evidence-informed decision-making and knowledge translation in public health. Through her doctoral work, she is developing a program of research focused on assessing competence in evidence-informed decision-making among public health nurses.

Professionally, Emily has had over a decade of experience working as a public health nurse in various public health units. Her portfolio has been varied and has included a focus on chronic disease prevention and school health. Emily has had the privilege of working alongside and collaborating with geographically and demographically diverse communities to promote health and well-being across the lifespan.

Emily has a keen interest in advancing the quality of practice for community health nurses, as evident in previous membership on Nursing Practice Councils, a health equity leadership committee, and currently, as an active member of Community Health Nurses of Canada.

Emily looks forward to applying her growing knowledge and skill set in research and education, as well as her frontline experience as a public health nurse in her new role as co-lead for Research, Education, and Professional Development.

Prag is a Registered Nurse, a graduate from the Master of Science in Nursing (MScN) at York University, Toronto Canada. Prag is the Learning & Development Manager at SE Health where she utilizes her knowledge and experience from Long-term care, Acute care and Community care to develop an educational framework, implement innovative learning approaches to enhance education standards, and monitors implementation and performance.

Prag leads the development and implementation of learning programs for two key SE Health initiatives with SE Global and SE Futures. Prag leads the projects designed with/for international partners (Kuwait, India, China, etc..). Prag also executes innovative approaches to supporting the learning and development of clinical staff, stakeholders, policy decision makers for the new innovative program, HOPE model of care, designed to disrupt home and community care.

Prior to joining Saint Elizabeth, Prag was the Clinical Practice Coach, where she designed and delivered education to all of the service delivery center on a wide range of organizational policy and discipline specific issues relevant to health care and client outcomes.

Prag’s career path includes Instructor, Bachelor of Nursing program at Humber College, Lead Clinical Practice Coach at Central West/Mississauga Halton SE Health, Charge Registered Nurse, Joseph Brant Hospital, Charge Registered Nurse, Rideaucrest Long Term Care, City of Kingston. Prag is also a member of the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario since 2015 and member of the Community Health Nurses’ Initiatives Group (CHNIG), Provincial Nurse Educator Interest Group (PNEING).