Dr. Pedro Velmovitsky is a Scientific Associate at @uhn.ca's Centre for Digital Therapeutics. Learn more about his impactful research as a newly named AMS Healthcare Compassion and AI Fellow ⬇️

From electronic health records to bringing evidence to digital technologies used in mental health care, Dr. Gillian Strudwick is changing how digital health works for people. Dr. Strudwick (@gstrudrn.bsky.social) from CAMH shares how she’s leading change. 🎧 Listen now: buff.ly/XJHOrUK

How should mental health law evolve in the face of new challenges? @ottawahealthlaw.ca is bringing together experts across law, psychiatry, Indigenous health, and more to lead these conversations in their upcoming conference. Register here:

We’re proud to welcome 13 outstanding 2025 AMS Fitzgerald Fellows, in collaboration with U of Toronto Joint Center for Bioethics. Over two years, the Fellows will build new collaborations and learn how to drive meaningful change across health systems. More here: buff.ly/IZC5PTK

Congratulations, Dr. Vanessa Wright on receiving the 2025 #AMSfellowship! 🙌 She will explore how immersive virtual reality simulation can help students and providers practice interprofessional collaboration. 🔗 More here: buff.ly/4Mf6qI3 @sinaihealth.bsky.social

Dr. Emily Seto is an Affiliate Scientist at UHN. Learn more about her impactful research as a newly named AMS Healthcare Compassion and AI Fellow ⬇️ @uhn.ca

Elder Vincent Pawis saw a need for healing rooted in culture when he served as a Native Inmate Liaison Officer at Sudbury Jail. From parole support to youth healing circles, he has transformed lives through cultural connection and reduced recidivism. 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/S524FtW

Congratulations, Dr. Pedro Velmovitsky on receiving the 2025 #AMSfellowship! He will be co-designing large language models (LLMs) that will judge responses and evaluate answers from other health care LLMs for accuracy, safety, and empathy. 🔗 More here: buff.ly/cwesyUi

Congratulations, Dr. Shelley Vanderhout on receiving the 2025 #AMSfellowship! 👏 She will co-design how AI can be used to deliver complex medical information on patient portals in ways that are more accessible, compassionate, and patient-friendly. 🔗 More here: buff.ly/1bk5fSw

Congratulations, Dr. Emily Seto on receiving the 2025 #AMSfellowship! She will co-design generalizable features for health apps that address language, digital, and health literacy barriers faced by a large group of users. 🔗 More here: buff.ly/YGPqNVj @ihpmeuoft.bsky.social

Congratulations, Dr. Brodie Nolan on receiving the 2025 #AMSfellowship! He will create guidelines on how to compassionately and ethically engage and inform trauma patients involved in studies on AI in healthcare. 🔗 More here: buff.ly/tyDTrNn @unityhealthto.bsky.social

Congratulations, Dr. Kristina Kokorelias on receiving the 2025 #AMSfellowship! Her project will co-design a peer support program with older adults living with HIV that uses digital tools and AI to strengthen human connection. 🔗 More here: buff.ly/Gjdy0IY @sinaihealth.bsky.social

Congratulations, Dr. Daniel Kobewka on receiving the 2025 #AMSfellowship! He will be using large language models to support long-term care residents, care partners, and physicians in compassionate, patient-centered hospital transfer decisions. 🔗 More here: buff.ly/2spT3mo

Congratulations, Dr. @meghangilfoyle.bsky.social on receiving the 2025 #AMSfellowship! She will work with patients, caregivers, and AI experts to find ways to support meaningful patient and caregiver engagement in AI development for healthcare. 🔗 More here: buff.ly/a5A6BD1

Congratulations, Dr. @katherinemaricole.bsky.social on receiving the 2025 #AMSfellowship! Her project aims to find the ideal balance of in-person and virtual care for cancer patients by examining health services data and surveys from cancer patients. 🔗 More here: buff.ly/8tjTV8y

Congratulations, Prof. Ryan Chan on receiving the 2025 #AMSfellowship! His project explores how to prepare nursing students to deliver compassionate care alongside AI in healthcare. 🔗 More here: buff.ly/cWYUK50 @rchan228.bsky.social @westernuresearch.bsky.social

Dr. Marisol Campos-Navarrete is a Scientific Associate at UHN's KITE Research Institute. Learn more about her impactful research as a newly named AMS Healthcare Compassion and AI Fellow ⬇️ @uhn.ca @kiteuhn.bsky.social

Congratulations, Dr. Marisol Campos-Navarrete on receiving the 2025 #AMSfellowship! She will be co-creating an AI framework with Indigenous mentors and partners to ensure that future healthcare AI truly addresses community needs. 🔗 More here: buff.ly/Zemc0xb @uhnresearch.ca

🎉 Congratulations to Drs. Kristina Kokorelias and Vanessa Wright on being named 2025 @AMShealthcare.ca Fellows in compassion and Artificial Intelligence! Their innovative research will help shape the future of healthcare in Canada. Read about the #AMSfellowship here ➡️ buff.ly/Dol9VxV

Congratulations to #TeamUHN Drs. Marisol Campos-Navarrete, Emily Seto, & Pedro Velmovitsky, named 2025 @amshealthcare.ca Compassion & AI Fellows! 🎉 This Fellowship supports visionary research, bold leadership & compassionate innovation in health care. Stay tuned for more on their work and impact ⬇️

With great pleasure, we'd like to announce and welcome the 2025 AMS Fellows in Compassion and Artificial Intelligence! We will feature the 11 exceptional fellows from across disciplines in the coming weeks. Read about the #AMSfellowship here: buff.ly/Dol9VxV

What does respectful engagement in Indigenous health spaces look like? Cultural safety starts with presence, patience, and listening. For non-Indigenous people, it is important to approach with humility and build trust through relationships, not assumptions. Listen here: buff.ly/McogG0u

Could using AI to predict survival of patients with serious illness be beneficial in family medicine? But more importantly, how would family physicians perceive the AI-derived survival estimations? Read the article here (open source): buff.ly/inrOimQ 🧵 [1/6]

Indigenous healers spend decades in apprenticeships to be recognized as a medicine keeper. Indigenous knowledge systems are rigorous and have always existed. As they are integrated into health systems, they deserved to be treated as equal, not as optional. 🎧 buff.ly/McogG0u

Canada's frontline teams are doing extraordinary work in a system that doesn't always support them. Dr. Robert Reid from Trillium Health Partners reminds us that delivering great care starts with designing systems that truly support the people providing it. Listen here 🎧 buff.ly/x2fXwyI

Canada’s healthcare system isn’t broken, but it is disconnected. Dr. Robert Reid from Trillium Health Partners has worked in a truly integrated health system. He believes Canada can also build a unified system to deliver better care. Listen here 🎧 buff.ly/x2fXwyI

AI governance is going to require engagement from all stakeholders from private sector to regular user. Our #AMS2025 Conference keynote speaker, Mark Daley, explains the role Canada can play in leading major global players to a universal standards for ethics and safety in an op-ed. [1/2]

To fix healthcare, we need integrated systems that embed research and connect care across primary care, hospitals, and long-term care. Dr. Robert Reid from Trillium Health Partners shares decades of wisdom on Compassionate Minds. 🎧 Listen now: buff.ly/zmcg9zb

Healing is happening on the land, in ceremony, and within Indigenous communities. Five Elders and healers shared how they are helping communities reclaim strength and traditions at a gathering hosted by St. Joseph’s Care Group in Thunder Bay. 🎧 Listen here: buff.ly/1GY32v2

Mental health care is shaped by law more than many realize! Dive into patient rights, privacy, and AI ethics at the Summer Institute in Mental Health Law at @ottawahealthlaw.ca. AMS Healthcare is offering $500 to eligible attendees! More here:

Colonial control wasn’t a single system. It was everywhere: religion, bureaucracy, land control, and policing. Elder Fred Kelly recalls the forces devastating Indigenous life that ignited his lifelong dedication to Indigenous justice, rights, and sovereignty. Listen here: buff.ly/RZLdsB2

Please join us in congratulating two AMS Fellows who were recently recognized at e-Health25 by the Digital Health Canada Awards: 2025 Digital Health Leader of the Year 🌟 @drsteelegray.bsky.social 2025 Emerging Leader of the Year 🌟 Dr. Venkat Bhat Read more here: www.canhealth.com/2025/06/04/d...

What makes a good AI prompt? At today’s AI Prompting Workshop, Ed Ortega from Machine & Partners, guided participants through crafting effective AI prompts and showed where AI can strengthen clinical and research workflows. Thank you everyone and Ed for joining today’s workshop!

From patient rights to AI-driven mental health tools, the Summer Institute in Mental Health Law by @ottawahealthlaw.ca offers a detailed overview of the legal landscape. In support, AMS Healthcare is offering $500 bursaries to eligible attendees! More here:

The latest issue of HealthcarePapers from @longwoods.bsky.social explores different dimensions of AI in Canadian healthcare. Many of the featured articles were written by AMS Healthcare Fellows, Board Members, and collaborators. Read here for the latest insights:

Family doctors already work in teams, but they’re still paid like solo providers. @kmoranont.bsky.social, CEO of @ontariosdoctors.bsky.social, addresses why it’s time to update compensation models to reflect today’s realities of team-based, collaborative care. Listen here 🎧 buff.ly/RZLdsB2

The inaugural AMS-Fitzgerald Fellows have officially graduated! 🎓 The AMS-Fitzgerald Fellowship is a partnership between @uoftdlsph.bsky.social and AMS Healthcare. The program equips health leaders to lead human-centred AI and digital transformation in health systems. [1/2]

Thank you @amshealthcare.bsky.social for elevating this work. I’m so thankful for my collaborators and team who I get to learn alongside everyday.

We’re proud to support this year’s joint conference of the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine (CSHM) and the Canadian Association for the History of Nursing (CAHN) and these important conversations and research. More here: buff.ly/PDuyp1A [1/4]

When it feels like care, it works like care. @drsteelegray.bsky.social found that successful health tech implementation depends on how meaningful a technology feels and how well it supports and fits into the care experience. Read more here: buff.ly/y2pamYJ

Too often, health policy and compensation have been separate conversations. @kmoranont.bsky.social‬ explains how creating compensation models that reward and support team-based care rather than just volume creates more sustainable and coordinated care. Listen here: 🎧 buff.ly/RZLdsB2

As a teenager trapped in residential school, Elder Fred Kelly’s earliest form of resistance began with writing letters that challenged the system that was oppressing Indigenous peoples. From letters to national leadership, he has led a life of resistance and reclamation. 🎧 buff.ly/RZLdsB2

1 in 2 Canadians will face a mental illness by 40. Explore how legal frameworks shape mental health care at the Summer Institute in Mental Health Law with @ottawahealthlaw.ca. In support, AMS Healthcare is offering $500 bursaries to eligible attendees! More here:

AI is already adopted across sectors, but are our regulations and policies keeping up? At “Artificial Intelligence – Seizing Opportunities for Canada,” hosted by C.D. Howe Institute & CIFAR, our CEO Helen Angus will weigh in on barriers to adoption in Canada. More here:

Strong policy ideas aren’t enough on their own. They need the right partnerships to translate into action. Tomorrow our CEO, Helen Angus, will speak on exactly that at the @ontariosdoctors.bsky.social‬ Political Landscape Panel alongside Tim Hudak, Carly Ellis, and Dr. Adam Kassam.

How can we access, share, and use health data to make care more efficient, equitable, and patient-centered? Our CEO, Helen Angus, will be sharing her expertise on how health data could transform Canada’s health systems at tonight’s Tectonic’s Innovation & Leadership Series.

We cannot solve the biggest challenges in health care by only adding more hospital beds. Dr. Danielle Martin explains why health system resilience starts with robust, integrated primary care that connects people to the services they need early and equitably. Listen here: 🎧 buff.ly/LYe93fZ

Are you interested in mental health law and policy? AMS Healthcare is offering $500 bursaries for eligible attendees in the upcoming Summer Institute in Mental Health Law hosted by @ottawahealthlaw.ca. No legal experience or training is required to apply to the program! More here:

It was great to catch up with Helen Angus on @amshealthcare.bsky.social's Compassionate Minds podcast to talk about the future of health care and other topical issues concerning @ontariosdoctors.bsky.social

From why physician care must become a team sport to reducing burnout with AI and workflow redesigns, @kmoranont.bsky.social, CEO of @ontariosdoctors.bsky.social, shares her assessment on what needs to happen next in healthcare. 🎧 Listen now: buff.ly/yMFT8jJ