AMS Healthcare Announces 2024 Compassion and Artificial Intelligence Grant Recipients

October 9, 2024

AMS Healthcare is very pleased to announce the 2024 awardees in our Compassion and AI Grants funding program. These eightremarkable scientists in our 5th cadre of recipients, and their multidisciplinary teams, were selected by an external expert review panel and join the twenty-two other projects we have funded since its inception in 2020. Their collective work will help transform healthcare by ensuring that technologies are enabling of healthcare’s compassionate purpose.

This innovative granting program supports research, knowledge translation and spread and scale activities. It has been designed to promote collaboration across disciplines and professions, and to engage the healthcare community in the exploration and evaluation of topics related to compassion and technology.

The work of these teams will innovate care delivery while keeping the key tenet of compassionate care at the core.” states AMS CEO Helen Angus “While they are grants for small projects, they develop concepts which are then ready for significant spread andscale and impact to the system.”

Ibukun Aberijinde
MD, MSc, PhD, Scientist, Institute for Better Health, Trillium Health Partners
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Supporting Migrants and Refugees with compassionate care: A study to develop and test digitally enabled care by Community organizations (e-COMPASS)

Bren Cardiff
RN, MN, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer and Virtual Care Operations Co-Lead, Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)

Optimizing the impact of a monitor configuration on alarm fire rate, alarm fatigue, and nurse well-being

 

Sandra Fucile
PhD, OT Reg (Ont), Assistant Professor, School of Rehabilitation Therapy, Department of Pediatrics, Queen’s University

Developing compassionate virtually guided infant development abilities (VIDA) monitoring technology with children who were born preterm and their families

Kristina Kokorelias
PhD, Senior Academic Program Coordinator and Associate Scientist, Sinai Health and University Health Network, Status appointments as Assistant Professor, The University of Toronto

Enabling virtual palliative care supports for family caregivers in rural Ontario navigating dementia and chronic conditions at the end of life through co-design

Marianne Saragosa
RN, PhD, Embedded Nurse Scientist, Science of Care Institute, Sinai Health

Navigating social isolation in older adults living in the community through compassionate digital connections

Robert Simpson
MD, PhD , Specialist Physician in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, the Barlo MS clinic at St Michael's Hospital, Assistant Professor, University of Toronto

Designing self-compassion treatment for people with multiple sclerosis

Carolyn Steele-Gray
MA, PhD, Investigator, The Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Sinai Health, Associate Professor (status) at the Institute of Health Policy, Evaluation and Management, University of Toronto

Developing tools that enable implementation of compassionate digital health

David Wiljer
PhD, Executive Director, Education, Technology and Innovation, University Health Network

Improving healthcare professional competencies through critical conversations about inclusion, diversity, fairness, and accessibility

AMS Healthcare works to advance a compassionate healthcare system by investing in leaders, convening stakeholders, supporting research, and funding innovative projects. Our work supports and learns from our rich history of healthcare.

More than a million dollars in funding is available on November 1st for the 2024 Compassion and AI funding program including grants like these and the new AMS Healthcare Leadership Fellow in Compassion and Artificial Intelligence program.

 

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