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
Crystal MacKay, PT, PhD
Award: 2022 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Self-compassion training for specialist inpatient rehabilitation providers
Robert Simpson, MD, PhD
Award: 2022 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Coping with grief in the digital era: exploring the role of compassion
Lydia Sequeira, PhD
Award: 2022 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Identifying patient‐validated compassion and equity concepts in community care clinical notes through natural language processing
Charlene Ronquillo, RN, PhD
Award: 2022 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Re-imagining digital health compassion through the lens of Canadian newcomers
Ibukun Abejirinde, PhD
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
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
