AMS Healthcare Announces the 2023 Cohort of Fellows in Compassion and Artificial Intelligence

September 13, 2023

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. Leaders that can evolve the way people think about healthcare. This year’s Fellows will join thirty-five Fellows from previous cadres doing collective work that is innovating every aspect of healthcare as we know it. “These highly qualified professionals and researchers have a unique opportunity to apply their talents to the burning platform in today’s healthcare system.” says AMS CEO Helen Angus. “We look forward to providing a developmental opportunity, and engaging them in our robust community of practice, to ensure that together these incredible individuals can lead changing the system to better meet the needs of our richly diverse Canadian population.”

Payal Agarwal

Researcher, Women’s College Hospital Institute for Health Systems Solutions and Virtual Care

Leveraging service design to build a compassionate integrated digital health ecosystem

Saleema Allana

Assistant Professor, School of Nursing at Western University

Working with South-Asian immigrants to make virtual care compassionate and more relevant to their needs

Samantha J. Anthony

Scientist, The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Research Institute 

Capturing patients’ voices through innovative AI technology to enhance compassionate healthcare

Tavis Apramian

Clinician-Investigator, Department of Family & Community Medicine, University of Toronto 

Preparing or deciding in serious illness? Digital solutions for a digital problem

Erin Cameron

Associate Professor of Medical Education, NOSM University

Learning to Trust: Advancing human-machine trust pedagogies for a technology enabled compassionate workforce in Northern and rural Canada

Charlene Chu

Assistant Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto

Co-designing a multi-modal sensor system to enable compassionate hip-fracture recovery at home for older adults

Robert Grant

Medical Oncologist and Clinician Investigator, Princess Margaret

Using artificial intelligence to prevent blood clots in cancer patients

Lindsay A. Jibb

Assistant Professor, Lawrence S. Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing, University of Toronto

Building compassionate digital capacity to manage childhood cancer pain: Parent co-design of the PainCaRe app.

Sara Ling

Associate Scientist, Digital Mental Health Lab within the Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH)

Understanding compassionate electronic health information exchange from the perspective of people who have substance use disorders

Marta Maslej

Scientist, Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics at The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Promoting compassionate care in acute psychiatry with human-AI teams

Sophie Nunnelly

Acting Director, University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy, and Ethics,

Artificial Intelligence and compassionate human rights respecting mental healthcare: What role for law?

Jennifer Shuldiner

Scientist, Women's College Hospital Institute for Health Systems Solutions & Virtual Care (WIHV).  

From depersonalization to compassion: co-creating better ways to use messaging technology in primary care

AMS Healthcare works to advance a compassionate healthcare system by investing in leaders, convening stakeholders, supporting research, and funding innovative projects. Our work supports and learns from our rich history of healthcare.

The call for the AMS 2024 Fellowships in Compassion and Artificial Intelligence will open on November 1, 2023.

 For more information visit: https://ossu.ca/resources/ams-healthcare/ams-fellowships/

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