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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 Announces the 2023 Cohort of Fellows in Compassion and Artificial Intelligence
AMS Healthcare is very pleased to announce our new cohort of Fellows in Compassion and Artificial Intelligence (AI). These 12 outstanding individuals, from across multiple disciplines, have been selected by an external expert review panel as leaders to address how compassion and technology will work together to address the exponential changes occurring in healthcare today….
AMS Healthcare Announces 2023 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Grant Recipients
AMS Healthcare is very pleased to announce the 2023 awardees in our Compassion and AI Grants funding program. These eightremarkable scientists in our 4th cadre of recipients, and their multidisciplinary teams, were selected by an external expert review panel and join the twenty-two other projects we have funded since its inception in 2020. Their collective work will…
AMS Healthcare Announces the History of Healthcare 2023 Award Recipients
AMS is thrilled to announce our eleven 2023 research grant and fellowship award recipients joining the collective of over 55 historians that have been awarded since the program’s inception in 2015. The AMS History of Healthcare Awards Program promotes scholarship, teaching, and public interest in history of healthcare, disease, and medicine. It incorporates 3 types…
The Future of Work: Embedding Technology in Compassionate Healthcare
AMS Healthcare would like to thank the dedicated healthcare leaders, including the exceptional patients and caregivers, that took the time to participate in our April 25th Conference at the Globe and Mail Centre in Toronto. From the keynote to the panelists to the incredibly engaged attendees, together as a community we dedicated our efforts to…
Announcing the New Podcast Indigenous Medicine Stories: Anishinaabe mshkiki nwii-dbaaddaan
Indigenous Medicine Stories Podcast is a collaboration between AMS Healthcare and the Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of Indigenous Health and Indigenous Traditional Medicine at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University. Indigenous Medicine Stories aims to educate health professionals and the public about Indigenous healing. The podcast will highlight the lived experiences…
New Fellowship Develops Human-Centred Leaders in AI for Health
Artificial intelligence promises to have a huge impact on Canadian health care – and faculty at the University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health are working now to train leaders who can realize its benefits. In partnership with AMS Healthcare, DLSPH has launched The AMS-Fitzgerald Fellowship in AI and Human-Centred Leadership – the first…
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