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 announces the release of groundbreaking reports on the future of aging in place
AMS releases the groundbreaking solutions offered in Open Lab’s reports on “Vertical Aging: The Future of Aging in Place in Urban Canada”.
AMS past Hannah Chair Jackie Duffin honoured with Order of Canada for career contributions
Jacalyn Duffin, held the Hannah Chair in the History of Medicine at Queen’s University, from 1988 to 2017. She was appointed as a Member of the Order of Canada for “her leadership as an academic and mentor in the field of medical history.”
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- Compassion and healthcare technology
- The history of medicine
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We're proud to share outcomes from a high-profile research community that's improving healthcare. Our resources come from AMS-sponsored researchers and project leads. Find research papers, briefing documents, articles, and videos to help you move your work forward.