Compassionate Health Technology:
People and Projects
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Funding recipients and featured projects
We fund projects that improve the delivery of compassionate care and build healthcare's future leaders.
Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowships
Advancing health data justice: Integrating compassion and artificial wisdom in AI
Award: 2025 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Exploring the role of immersive virtual reality simulation to enhance compassionate interprofessional collaboration
Award: 2025 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Automating the evaluation of clinical large language models to support compassionate care
Award: 2025 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Engaging people in compassionate care through patient portals and artificial intelligence
Award: 2025 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Reimagining health apps for inclusive and equitable access through artificial intelligence
Award: 2025 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Fostering compassionate engagement in AI research for major trauma patients: A Delphi study and best practice guidelines
Award: 2025 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Research Impact
Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Small Grants
Exploring compassionate telerehabilitation delivery for adults with spinal cord injury
Award: 2025 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Grant
Facilitating code status companion – using AI to support compassionate decision – making in end of life care
Award: 2025 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Grant
Supporting the breast cancer journey through co-creation of a compassionate nurse-led digital program
Award: 2025 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Grant
Prompting compassion: Mitigating stigmatizing language related to mental illness with generative AI
Award: 2025 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Grant
Scaling with compassion: Exploring patient partner’s perspectives on sustaining compassionate care while scaling AI and digital health innovations
Award: 2025 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Grant
AMS-Fitzgerald Fellowships
2025 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Andrea Waddell is a psychiatrist and the Medical Director of Clinical Informatics and Quality Standards at Waypoint Centre for Mental…
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2025 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Paul Sharma is Director of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention at Peel Public Health, Region of Peel. He previously managed…
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2025 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Louise Pichette leads Health Sciences at MaRS Discovery District, a non-profit organization supporting over 1,200 Canadian science and technology companies.…
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2025 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Laila Nasser is an Emergency Physician and Director of Quality Improvement, Innovation, and Human Factors at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.…
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2025 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Ryan MacNeil is a health leader based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with a background in engineering and health system transformation.…
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2025 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Briana Layard is a healthcare leader and Registered Nurse currently serving as Clinical Lead for Research and AI at the…
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