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
Exploring the impact of genomics and AI on health equity and compassionate care in oncology
Dr. Benjamin Chin-Yee, MD MA
Award: 2020 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Understanding the emerging intersection between digitally-enabled and compassionate care.
Dr. Laura Desveaux, PhD PT
Award: 2020 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Developing tools to assist people with cognitive decline benefit from home monitoring technologies
Dr. Dorothy Kessler, PhD OT
Award: 2020 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Developing an AI enabled program that codes parent-infant interaction quality
Team Research
Award: 2020 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Developing teaching approaches to support compassionate virtual care
Dr. Stella Ng, PhD Reg. CASLPO
Award: 2020 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Exploring how trust-based relationships, needed for compassionate care, can be built (or prevented) through digital health tools
Dr. Carolyn Steele Gray, PhD
Award: 2020 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Research Impact
Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Small Grants
Exploring compassionate telerehabilitation delivery for adults with spinal cord injury
Lovisa Cheung
Award: 2025 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Grant
Facilitating code status companion – using AI to support compassionate decision – making in end of life care
Kieran Quinn
Award: 2025 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Grant
Supporting the breast cancer journey through co-creation of a compassionate nurse-led digital program
Quynh Pham
Award: 2025 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Grant
Prompting compassion: Mitigating stigmatizing language related to mental illness with generative AI
Marta Maslej
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
Celia Laur
Award: 2025 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Grant
