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AMS Healthcare Announces a Ninth Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity
AMS Healthcare is thrilled to announce Lucy Vorobej as our new AMS Fellow in Residence for Healthcare History and Interdisciplinary Exchange. In this part-time, one-year fellowship, Lucy will contribute her expertise to advancing AMS’s mission of fostering innovation and compassion in healthcare through a historical lens. Lucy is a historian whose work explores the intersections…
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Longwoods Breakfast Series
Longwoods Breakfast Series with the Chiefs Digital Compassion: Do you have a choice? Watch this riveting panel discussion (Taped on May 17th, 2022). Featuring AMS Community Members: Brian Hodges, AMS Strategic Advisor, David Wiljer, AMS Funding Recipient, Gillian Strudwick, AMS Board member and Moderated by AMS Board Member, Will Falk
AMS Healthcare Announces New CEO
AMS Healthcare Announces New CEO Gail Paech’s Legacy at AMS Healthcare After ten years at the helm of AMS Healthcare, Gail Paech will be ending her tenure on June 30th, 2022. In the past decade she has grown AMS from an organization focused on the history of medicine, into one committed not only to broadly…
Insulin 100 Symposium
On May 3, 2022, The Toronto Medical Historical Club celebrated the 100th anniversary of the discovery of insulin with a symposium. AMS Healthcare was honoured to be one of the sponsors of Banting, Bliss, and Beyond: A Century of Science and Care and of the Historical Workshop on J.J.R Macleod. The symposium was held at…
Mandatory COVID-19 vaccination in schools this fall? Ontario’s 1982 legislation spurred organized opposition
This blog was written by AMS Healthcare History of Medicine and Healthcare Program 2020 project grant recipient Catherine Carstairs and her colleagues from the University of Guelph. It very nicely supports the AMS Healthcare concept that History of Medicine research can and does act as a source of lessons that shape or inform the Canadian…
AMS Announces 2021 History of Medicine Awardees
AMS is very pleased to announce our ten 2021 research grant and fellowship award recipients. The AMS History of Medicine and Healthcare Awards Program promotes scholarship, teaching, and public interest in history of healthcare, disease, and medicine. The Program incorporates 3 types of awards: Post-Doctoral Fellowships of $45,000, Doctoral Completion Awards of $25,000, and Project…
AMS Podcast: Good Tech, Compassionate Healthcare
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Libsyn Podcast Spotify All Episodes Optimizing AI – Part Two Thank you for joining us for this special episode of Good Tech Compassionate Healthcare. In May of 2024, AMS Healthcare was thrilled to convene 170 healthcare stakeholders from across Ontario to delve into the timely and ethical scaling…
We regularly partner with world-class organizations to bring you exceptional offerings in technology and compassionate care as well as in the history of healthcare.
From globally-renowned research institutes and healthcare delivery organizations to leading educational establishments, our partners all seek to improve the state of healthcare by making caring for people its focal point. Together, we offer conferences and events, research funding, scholorships and more.