Meet the Co-chairs

Brenda Luffman

Brenda graduated from Queen’s University School of Nursing over 40 years ago and worked her entire career in the FLA region. Her early focus in Critical Care Nursing and Clinical Hospital Education at Kingston General Hospital. She shifted to Management and Senior Leadership roles at Lennox & Addington County General Hospital and at Providence Care Hospital over the last 12 years, where she was also focused on Professional Practice and Clinical Informatics.

Now retired, Brenda joined the FLA OHT Community Council in September 2023. She also sits on the Digital Technologies Support Structure as a community member and hopes to use her health-care expertise as well as her family and caregiver experience to assist in the development journey of the OHT.

Brenda is excited to serve as a community council co-chair working to increase use of digital technologies and improve health care access for community members.

Kerry Stewart

Kerry Stewart volunteers as a Patient & Family Experience Advisor at the Kingston Health Sciences Center and South East Regional Cancer Center, bringing the patient and family perspectives into corporate and frontline planning and decision-making.

Kerry has lived experience with cardiac and orthopedic surgeries, as well as chronic disease management. She believes a strong, responsive, accessible health-care system will involve a consistent, respectful partnership between patients, families and health care providers. 

Kerry has been an active member of the Access to Primary Care Working Group and is thrilled to become Co-Chair of the Community Council.