The Bereavement and Tissue Donation Conference is an educational symposium for interdisciplinary healthcare professionals caring for children, adolescents, and young adults with cancer and other high-risk, poor prognosis diseases.

This seminar focuses on providing compassionate, comprehensive support for patients, families, and care teams when navigating conversations about autopsy and tissue donation as well as anticipatory grief, coping with poor prognoses, and bereavement. Participants will learn practical, evidence-based communication strategies, understand the roles of interdisciplinary team members, and explore ways to integrate palliative care, legacy-building, meaning-making, and structured grief support across the practice of pediatric oncology/hematology/BMT and other pediatric specialties with poor prognostic outcomes. The seminar emphasizes supporting patients and families as well as interdisciplinary providers across the care continuum, including early introduction of discussions, revisiting conversations over time, and structured post-death/bereavement follow-up. This full day symposium will offer a variety of educational content, including keynote presentations from leading experts; shorter practical, high-yield educational sessions; and panels including interdisciplinary care team members as well as bereaved parents.