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AMS Healthcare Announces Senior Fellows and Executive-in-Residence Program
AMS Healthcare is pleased to announce an exciting evolution in our network – the launch of the AMS Healthcare Senior Fellows and Executive-in-Residence Program. This initiative engages seasoned leaders from healthcare, public health, policy, industry, and academia to mentor AMS Fellows and Grantees and to advance thought leadership that amplifies our mission of maximizing compassion…
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AMS Announces 2022 Fellows in Compassion and Artificial Intelligence
AMS Healthcare is excited to announce the 2022 Research Fellows in Compassion and Artificial Intelligence. These 12 outstanding individuals, from across multiple disciplines, have been selected by an external expert review panel as leaders and innovators to address the challenges facing healthcare. The “AMS Compassion and AI” program focusses on promoting the integration of digital…
AMS Announces 2022 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Grant Awardees
AMS Healthcare is very pleased to announce the 2022 awardees in our Compassion and AI Grants funding program. These six remarkable scientists in our 3rd cadre of recipients, and their multidisciplinary teams, were selected by an external expert review panel and join the sixteen other projects we have funded in 2020 and 2021. Their collective work will…
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…
