Amol Verma is a physician, scientist, and Associate Professor in General Internal Medicine at St. Michael’s Hospital and the University of Toronto and the Temerty Professor of AI Research and Education in Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is a health services researcher, studying and improve hospital care using electronic clinical data. Amol co-founded and co-leads GEMINI, one of Canada’s largest hospital clinical data research networks, which is collecting data from >30 hospitals in Ontario. He co-invented CHARTwatch, a machine learning tool that uses electronic medical record data to predict patient deterioration in hospital, and led its implementation at St. Michael’s Hospital.
Amol completed medical training at the University of Toronto, a Master’s degree at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and research fellowships through the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, the Canadian Frailty Network, and the AMS Healthcare AI and Compassion Fellowship. He is a Provincial Clinical Lead for Quality Improvement in General Internal Medicine with Ontario Health and the Chair of the Researcher Council of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. He received the 2022 Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Early Career Leadership Award and the 2022 Canadian Institutes of Health Research’s early career Trailblazer Award in Population and Public Health Research.