AMS Healthcare Announces 2026 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Grant Recipients
AMS Healthcare is delighted to introduce the 2026 recipients of our Compassion and AI Grants. Now in its seventh and final year, the program has invested in innovative projects and the people behind them, advancing new ideas about how technology can serve healthcare’s compassionate purpose.
Since its launch in 2020, the program has supported research, knowledge exchange, and spread and scale activities, while helping to build a growing community of scholars and practitioners working at the intersection of compassion and AI. As this final group of grant recipients joins that community, their work will contribute to an important legacy of knowledge, collaboration and impact that will continue well beyond the program itself.
“These final grant recipients reflect what AMS strives to achieve through our work, to invest in people and ideas, convene a community committed to learning from one another, and influence how compassion is embedded in the future of healthcare,” said Helen Angus, CEO of AMS Healthcare. “We look forward to seeing how their work, together with that of those who came before them, continues to advance healthcare that is both technologically enabled and profoundly human.”

James A. Anderson
Bioethicist and Ethics Lead for AI, The Hospital for Sick Children
Consenting for CLinical AI in OntaRIo TodaY
Daniel Buchman
Senior Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Understanding how people want their mental health data used in AI research

Benjamin Chin-Yee
Hematologist and Assistant Professor, London Health Sciences Centre
Helping patients understand blood cancer diagnoses with compassionate artificial intelligence

Laura Desveaux
Director, Learning Health System Leadership Centre, Institute for Better Health, Trillium Partners
Understanding tech-ready compassionate ldearship and its relationship with AI use in heatlhcare

Umair Majid
Lampe Fellow in Primary Care Reform, Office of Spread and Scale, Institute for Health System Solution sand Virtual Care, Women's College Hospital
Co-designing a compassion playbook for AI-enabled primary care

Jeremy Petch
Chief AI and Digital Planning Officer, Trillium Health Partners

Laura Sikstrom
Scientist, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Azadeh Yadollahi
Scientific Associate, University Health Network