2024 AMS-Fitzgerald Fellow
Natalie Gyenes is a researcher and writer focusing on the intersection of health and technology. She explores the way that the health information we encounter online impacts disease distribution, and the role that epidemics – and digital misinfodemics – have in changing cultures, traditions and societies.
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Karine Baser is the Manager of Clinical and Quality Standards at Ontario Health.
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Rosalind Abdool is a practicing clinical ethicist, working at Trillium Health Partners, Mississauga. THP is currently developing a robust AI Governance process. As part of this process, ethical principles and considerations grounded in human-centered care are necessary. The aim of Rosalind’s project is threefold (which she will call THP’s AI Ethical Framework): continued refinement of…
Read MoreClicking into healthcare: How newcomers to Canada perceive and experience virtual care
“There’s no algorithm for compassion. There’s no predictive model for compassion. And the only thing that technology will not be able to do is human compassion”
Read MoreAlgorithms with heart: Using machine learning to improve health care and patient outcomes
Healthcare innovation often begins at the crossroads of curiosity and necessity. For Dr. Amol Verma, a General Internal Medicine Physician at St. Michael’s Hospital, it started with a simple question: How can we deliver better care to our patients? In the mid-2010s, Dr. Verma and his colleagues sought to measure the quality of care being…
Read MoreCompassion beyond the screen: Dr. Laura Desveaux’s research shows how compassionate health care can thrive in virtual care
Ontario’s health care system experienced a seismic shift in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Technology-based primary care visits soared 56-fold while in-person visits dropped by nearly 80%. Amid the rapid pivot to virtual care and the near immediate decline in social connectivity, a pressing question emerged: can compassionate care translate through a screen? After…
Read MoreHyperemesis histories: Patient and policy perspectives in twentieth and twenty-first century Canada
Hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) is a pregnancy complication characterized by severe nausea and vomiting that has wide-ranging effects on pregnant people. While historians of women’s health have written at length on pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood, the history of HG and broader nausea and vomiting during pregnancy (NVP) remains underexplored, especially in the Canadian context. With AMS…
Read MoreCollecting the artificial body: Surveying the material culture of prosthetic artifacts
The twentieth century witnessed remarkable development within the field of prosthetics. This process occurred across many medical disciplines, producing a range of prostheses as dissimilar from each other as artificial organs, hearing assistive devices, and electrically controlled robot limbs. Erich and Elizabeth’s project addresses prosthetics as a singular topic using artifacts from the University of…
Read MoreChildhood madness: Compassionate portraits of children in Canadian insane asylums, 1880-1930
Childhood Madness is a digital exhibit about the experiences of children in Canadian asylums across five provinces. Kira’s project includes a map and timeline to develop a larger sense of time and the impact of colonialism. From there, viewers engage with province-based sections that include stories about institutionalized children. The goal of her project exhibit…
Read More“More to the design than just architecture”: Practices, philosophies, and architectures of care, 1960-1995
The architectures of long-term and palliative care have resisted related typologies, like hospitals, in the same way that the hospice philosophy resists the medical desire to cure. Fiona’s dissertation explores what care, as an evolving concept, has looked like to architects in North America and the UK since the 1960’s. It considers how architecture has…
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