Compassionate Health Technology:
People and Projects
See how our funding recipients are making a difference
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
Providing compassionate virtual and in-person family physician care
Award: 2021 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Facilitating communication between persons with dementia and their family caregivers through a multisensory virtual reality intervention
Award: 2021 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Exploring how compassion-centered communication of risk can be applied to self-administered on-line health assessments
Award: 2021 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Imagining Compassionate Consent for Digital Mental Health Services
Award: 2021 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Applying novel technologies to promote compassionate, user-centered, and equitable access to sleep apnea care in people experiencing homelessness
Award: 2021 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Understanding AI implications for stigma and compassion in mental health and addiction
Award: 2020 Compassion & 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…
2025 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Paul Sharma is Director of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention at Peel Public Health, Region of Peel. He previously managed…
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.…
2025 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Laila Nasser is an Emergency Physician and Director of Quality Improvement, Innovation, and Human Factors at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.…
2025 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Ryan MacNeil is a health leader based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with a background in engineering and health system transformation.…
2025 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Briana Layard is a healthcare leader and Registered Nurse currently serving as Clinical Lead for Research and AI at the…
