Compassionate Health Technology:
People and Projects
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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
2024 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Karine Baser is the Manager of Clinical and Quality Standards at Ontario Health.
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2024 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Rosalind Abdool is a practicing clinical ethicist, working at Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga. THP is currently developing a robust AI…
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2023 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Terence Tang is a General Internal Medicine physician at Trillium Health Partners, and clinician-scientist at the Institute for Better Health.…
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2023 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Steven Rebellato is the Chief Innovation Officer and Vice President for the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit. He is also…
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2023 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Amanda Ottley’s current project is the development of the Zero Hunger app, which uses AI-powered recommender systems to map and…
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2023 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Parisa Osivand currently develops the next generation of policies and processes in governing health data which will be leveraged in…
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