Advancing innovative
healthcare with
compassion at its core
Healthcare practitioners, leaders, educators, and medical historians:
Join a one-of-a-kind group. With our funding and support, you’ll contribute to a rich body of work and advance inquiry, system change, and your career.
Our Focus Areas
These two areas foster a Canadian healthcare system that's advancing technologically, while staying rooted in compassion and an understanding of our medical history. In each area, we support crucial activities in research education, leadership, and clinical practice.

Bringing compassion into modern, technology-driven care

The history of medicine
Featured news, events, resources
AMS Healthcare Invitational Conference
Save the Date Tuesday, April 25th , 2023 AMS Healthcare Invitational Conference The Globe and Mail Centre, Toronto The Future of Work: Embedding Technology in the Healthcare Team How do we move from today’s workforce crisis to tomorrow’s workforce solution? What solutions are ready for spread and scale now? How do we train practitioners for…
Longwoods Breakfast Series
Longwoods Breakfast Series with the Chiefs Digital Compassion: Do you have a choice? Watch this riveting panel discussion (Taped on May 17th, 2022). Featuring AMS Community Members: Brian Hodges, AMS Strategic Advisor, David Wiljer, AMS Funding Recipient, Gillian Strudwick, AMS Board member and Moderated by AMS Board Member, Will Falk
AMS Healthcare Announces New CEO
AMS Healthcare Announces New CEO Gail Paech’s Legacy at AMS Healthcare After ten years at the helm of AMS Healthcare, Gail Paech will be ending her tenure on June 30th, 2022. In the past decade she has grown AMS from an organization focused on the history of medicine, into one committed not only to broadly…
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- Compassion and healthcare technology
- The history of medicine
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