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
Adding compassion to the consultation: Using AI to create person-centered communication
Geetha Mukerji
Award: 2026 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Deploying a patient self-assessment medical chatbot in the emergency department
Ilitea Kina
Award: 2026 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Moving from understanding to action: Integrating compassion into AI implementation in healthcare
Hwayeon (Danielle) Shin
Award: 2026 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Optimizing patient triage and transfer during mass casualty incidents: An artificial intelligence-based platform
Amin Madani
Award: 2026 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence
Designing practices for trustworthy, compassionate, and pluriversal AI for health
Joseph Donia
Award: 2026 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Research Impact
Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Small Grants
Leveraging technology to foster self-compassion and community support for Canadian Muslim youth mental health
Ahmed Hassan
Award: 2025 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Grant
Engaging in deliberative dialogue to co-design a digital technology to facilitate serious illness conversations and advanced care planning with racialized populations in primary care
Azza Eissa
Award: 2025 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Grant
Fostering compassion in AI-assisted clinical documentation: A mixed methods investigation of the role of critical reflection
Wenonah Campbell
Award: 2025 Compassion & Artificial Intelligence Grant
Enabling virtual palliative care supports for family caregivers in rural Ontario navigating dementia and chronic conditions at the end of life through co-design
Kristina Kokorelias
Award: 2024 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Grant
Developing tools that enable implementation of compassionate digital health
Carolyn Steele Gray
Award: 2024 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Grant
