AMS Healthcare Announces 2025 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Grant Recipients

October 1, 2025

AMS Healthcare is delighted to introduce the 2025 recipients of our Compassion and AI Grants. Now in its sixth year, this program has funded nearly forty groundbreaking projects, supporting teams of scientists and innovators who are reimagining how technology can serve healthcare’s compassionate purpose.

By investing in research, knowledge exchange, and spread and scale activities, the program is helping to build a national network of scholars and practitioners working at the intersection of compassion and AI.

“These new recipients embody the creativity and commitment needed to shape the future of Canadian healthcare,” said Helen Angus, CEO of AMS Healthcare. “As they join our continually growing community of over 150 Fellows, Chairs, and grant holders, their work will deepen our collective ability to deliver care that is both technologically advanced and profoundly human.”

Wenonah Campbell
Scientist, Associate Professor, Scientist, McMaster University

Fostering compassion in AI-assisted clinical documentation: A mixed methods investigation of the role of critical reflection

 

Lovisa Cheung

Postdoctoral Fellow, McMaster University ; Registered Physical Therapist, Hamilton Health Sciences

Exploring compassionate telerehabilitation delivery for adults with spinal cord injury

 

 

Azza Eissa

Clinician Scientist, Primary Care, Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners

Engaging in deliberative dialogue to co-design a digital technology to facilitate serious illness conversations and advanced care planning with racialized populations in primary care

 

Ahmed Hassan

Psychiatrist and Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

Leveraging technology to foster self-compassion and community support for Canadian Muslim youth mental health

 

Celia Laur

Scientist, Women’s College Hospital

Scaling with compassion: Exploring patient partner’s perspectives on sustaining compassionate care while scaling AI and digital health innovations

 

Marta Maslej

Staff Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Prompting compassion: Mitigating stigmatizing language related to mental illness with generative AI

 

Karen Okrainec

General Internist, Principal Investigator, Clinician Scientist, University Health Network

Harnessing AI for compassionate care: Identifying and supporting patients with social determinants and medical complexity

Quynh Pham

Scientific Director and Scientist, Centre for Digital Therapeutics, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute, University Health Network

Supporting the breast cancer journey through co-creation of a compassionate nurse-led digital Program

Kieran Quinn

General Internal Medicine and Palliative Care Clinician-Scientist, Sinai Health ; Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto

Facilitating code status companion - using AI to support compassionate decision - making in end of life care

 

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