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
Advancing health data justice: Integrating compassion and artificial wisdom in AI
Award: 2025 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Exploring the role of immersive virtual reality simulation to enhance compassionate interprofessional collaboration
Award: 2025 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Automating the evaluation of clinical large language models to support compassionate care
Award: 2025 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Engaging people in compassionate care through patient portals and artificial intelligence
Award: 2025 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Reimagining health apps for inclusive and equitable access through artificial intelligence
Award: 2025 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Fellowship
Fostering compassionate engagement in AI research for major trauma patients: A Delphi study and best practice guidelines
Award: 2025 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
Akorede (AK) Adekoya is an excellence-driven Digital Health Leader with several years of experience in managing medium-large scale innovative healthcare…
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2024 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Abbas Zavar is a physician and digital health scientist dedicated to advancing Personalized Medicine (PM) and the compassionate integration of…
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2024 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
May Tuason, Executive Director of Clinical Architecture, Digital Experience & Innovation at the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) in BC,…
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2024 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Ivan Terekhov is a Data Architect with over 10 years of experience in working with Electronic Medical Records data. He…
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2024 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Mehdi Somji is the Director of Innovation & Partnerships at Trillium Health Partners. Most notably, Mehdi led the development and…
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2024 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Lorraine Shack is the Director of Cancer Advanced Analytics, Cancer Care Alberta, Alberta Health Services and is an Assistant Professor…
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