Kitty completed her Registered Practical Nurse (RPN) training in London, ON and worked in many diverse areas including medical, surgical, home care, and wound clinics in the past 33 years. She joined the staff at the Haldimand Family Health team in 2008. Four years later, she expanded her role and took several courses through The Canadian Lung Association, Canadian Thoracic Society, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) and The Ontario Respiratory Care Society to become a Certified Respiratory Educator (CRE) and Certified Tobacco Educator (CTE). She has also completed  Training Enhancement in Applied Counselling and Health (TEACH) specializing in smoking cessation. Since 2012 Kitty has been providing respiratory programs with a focus on spirometry, asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and smoking cessation for the our community.