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
Evaluating a person-centred digital intervention to promote physical activity behaviour change following dysvascular lower limb amputation
Award: 2022 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Self-compassion training for specialist inpatient rehabilitation providers
Award: 2022 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Coping with grief in the digital era: exploring the role of compassion
Award: 2022 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Identifying patient‐validated compassion and equity concepts in community care clinical notes through natural language processing
Award: 2022 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Re-imagining digital health compassion through the lens of Canadian newcomers
Award: 2022 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…
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…
