Advancing innovative
healthcare with
compassion at its core
Healthcare practitioners, leaders, educators, and medical historians:
Join a one-of-a-kind group. With our funding and support, you’ll contribute to a rich body of work and advance inquiry, system change, and your career.
Our Focus Areas
These two areas foster a Canadian healthcare system that's advancing technologically, while staying rooted in compassion and an understanding of our medical history. In each area, we support crucial activities in research education, leadership, and clinical practice.
Bringing compassion into modern, technology-driven care
The history of healthcare
Featured news, events, resources
AMS Healthcare Announces a Ninth Hannah Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity
AMS Healthcare, along with the J & W Murphy Foundation, is proud to announce the establishment of the Hannah-Roper Chair in the History of Healthcare and Health Equity at Dalhousie University and King’s University College. This ninth Hannah Chair joins a distinguished network of scholars advancing research and education in health professions and history. As…
AMS Healthcare Announces Lucy Vorobej as Our New AMS Fellow in Residence for Healthcare History and Interdisciplinary Exchange
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…
2024 AMS History of Healthcare Program Awards Announcement
AMS Healthcare is proud to announce the fourteen distinguished recipients of our 2024 research grants, doctoral research, and fellowship awards. These individuals join a growing community of over 66 historians who have been recognized since the program’s inception in 2015. Through these awards-Post-Doctoral Fellowship Awards ($45,000), Doctoral Research Awards ($25,000), and Project Grants (up to…
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- Compassion and healthcare technology
- The history of healthcare
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We're proud to share outcomes from a high-profile research community that's improving healthcare. Our resources come from AMS-sponsored researchers and project leads. Find research papers, briefing documents, articles, and videos to help you move your work forward.