Description:

This session will explore the evidence supporting the release of clinical information including test results and clinical notes—to patients and families. We will examine best practices for implementing information release in ways that promote transparency and patient engagement while maximizing benefits and supporting safe, effective care.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the evidence supporting the release of clinical information—including test results and clinical notes—to patients.
2. Identify best practices for the safe and effective release of clinical information.
3. Discuss strategies to maximize the benefits of information transparency while minimizing potential risks to patients and care teams.

Description:

A collaborative session led by a Physiotherapist and Occupational Therapist about the common functional challenges experienced by children with cancer. Using interactive, participation based activities you can discover strategies for helping your patients move and when to involve rehabilitation services.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the role of rehabilitation (OT and PT) across the pediatric oncology continuum.
2. Identify common functional challenges experienced by children and youth with cancer.
3. Develop creative, evidence-informed strategies that promote engagement, independence, and return to valued activities.
4. Recognize the benefits of early access to interdisciplinary collaboration and rehab involvement.

Description:

Through brief clinical cases, this presentation will explore liquid biopsy using blood and other fluids in pediatric non-CNS oncology. Cases will illustrate its use in diagnosis, therapeutic genotyping, and disease monitoring, as well as its limitations.

Learning Objectives:

1. To appreciate the opportunities and challenges of liquid biopsy for diagnosis of pediatric cancer
2. To review how liquid biopsy can be used to monitor response to therapy
3. To appreciate how liquid biopsy could be used to predict those at increased risk for relapse

Description:

Children and adolescents facing cancer are often supported by multiple care providers — including oncologists, pharmacists, naturopathic doctors, nurses and family caregivers — who don't always communicate directly with one another. This workshop brings together a Naturopathic Doctor, an Oncology Pharmacist and a Former Patient with lived experience to build practical strategies for open dialogue, safe integration of complementary medicines and conventional treatments, and coordinated support for the whole family. Participants will be invited to share their own experiences and will leave with tools to strengthen collaboration and reduce risks in pediatric cancer treatment.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will leave with a better understanding of the needs and desires of patients and their families regarding the integration of complementary medicine.
2. Participants will be able to describe safety and treatment considerations when combining conventional treatments with integrative medicine.
3. Participants will leave with strategies to strengthen collaboration between Pediatric Oncology teams and Naturopathic Doctors.

Description:

This interactive workshop invites healthcare professionals to step beyond the Symptom Screening in Pediatric (SSPedi) score and experience the impact of taste changes through hands-on sensory activities. Through review of case scenarios and group discussions, the participants will understand how bothersome nutrition symptoms can intersect with appetite, eating enjoyment, quality of life, and family feeding dynamics. Attendees will leave with practical family-centred strategies to support good nutrition status during childhood cancer treatment.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explore how bothersome nutrition symptoms can impact eating enjoyment and psychosocial factors that alter nutrition intake.
2. Engage in sensory activities that help demonstrate common taste, flavor and smell changes.
3. Apply an interdisciplinary and family-centred approach to provide practical strategies to support good nutrition during pediatric cancer treatment.

Description:

This panel discussion will consider the merits of of the mainstream bioethics toolkit and the role of emerging concepts for managing real cases. This panel will comprised of Michelle Mullen (Paediatric Bioethicist), Alexandra Zorzi (Pediatric Hematology Oncologist and Associate Professor), and Jane Cassano (Social Worker) to introduce issues and approaches. A robust audience engaged discussion of an ethics case and Q&A will be moderated by Serina Patel (Paediatric Haematologist/Oncologist)

Learning Objectives:

1. Appreciate the usefulness and limitations of bioethics tools commonly invoked 
2. Consider emerging tools of narrative, trauma informed care and intersectionality in approaching cases
3. Engage in productive ethics analyses using these tools

Description:

A collaborative session led by a Physiotherapist and Occupational Therapist about the common functional challenges experienced by children with cancer. Using interactive, participation based activities you can discover strategies for helping your patients move and when to involve rehabilitation services.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Describe the role of rehabilitation (OT and PT) across the pediatric oncology continuum.
2. Identify common functional challenges experienced by children and youth with cancer.
3. Develop creative, evidence-informed strategies that promote engagement, independence, and return to valued activities.
4. Recognize the benefits of early access to interdisciplinary collaboration and rehab involvement.

Description:

Children and adolescents facing cancer are often supported by multiple care providers — including oncologists, pharmacists, naturopathic doctors, nurses and family caregivers — who don't always communicate directly with one another. This workshop brings together a Naturopathic Doctor, an Oncology Pharmacist and a Former Patient with lived experience to build practical strategies for open dialogue, safe integration of complementary medicines and conventional treatments, and coordinated support for the whole family. Participants will be invited to share their own experiences and will leave with tools to strengthen collaboration and reduce risks in pediatric cancer treatment.

Learning Objectives:

1. Participants will leave with a better understanding of the needs and desires of patients and their families regarding the integration of complementary medicine.
2. Participants will be able to describe safety and treatment considerations when combining conventional treatments with integrative medicine.
3. Participants will leave with strategies to strengthen collaboration between Pediatric Oncology teams and Naturopathic Doctors.

Description:

This interactive workshop invites healthcare professionals to step beyond the Symptom Screening in Pediatric (SSPedi) score and experience the impact of taste changes through hands-on sensory activities. Through review of case scenarios and group discussions, the participants will understand how bothersome nutrition symptoms can intersect with appetite, eating enjoyment, quality of life, and family feeding dynamics. Attendees will leave with practical family-centred strategies to support good nutrition status during childhood cancer treatment.

Learning Objectives:

1. Explore how bothersome nutrition symptoms can impact eating enjoyment and psychosocial factors that alter nutrition intake.
2. Engage in sensory activities that help demonstrate common taste, flavor and smell changes.
3. Apply an interdisciplinary and family-centred approach to provide practical strategies to support good nutrition during pediatric cancer treatment.

Description:
This session provides an overview of artificial intelligence (AI), including common types of AI and their applications in pediatrics. Participants will explore how AI can be used in pediatrics to support clinical care, research, and education, and will examine key limitations, risks, and ethical considerations associated with the use of AI in healthcare.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand the fundamentals of artificial intelligence and its role in pediatrics.
2. Explore current and emerging applications of artificial intelligence in pediatric care.
3. Discuss the limitations and ethical considerations of artificial intelligence in pediatric practice.

Description:

This presentation will review new evidence of efficacy with blinatumomab in pediatric B-ALL. A look at the challenges and promises of de-intensification trial designs will include audience participation. The session will conclude with presenting variation in blinatumomab care and delivery and efforts to improve standardization.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand new evidence of blinatumomab efficacy in pediatric patients with B-ALL.
2. Review promises and challenges of future B-ALL de-intensification trial designs.
3. Describe immunotoxicity related to blinatumomab.
4. Recognize variation in blinatumomab administration and efforts guiding standardization.

Description:

Symptom screening by children and adolescents with cancer and undergoing cellular therapy increases quality of life.  This presentation will discuss:

• How symptom screening may be implemented in Ontario
• Some of the resources that will be available to support implementation including POGO-supported care pathways
• The future of symptom screening implementation in Ontario

Learning Objectives:

At the end of this presentation, attendees will understand:

1. The provincial plan for symptom screening implementation
2. The role of healthcare professionals in responding to symptom screening results and the resources available to support evidence-based responses
3. How symptom screening will contribute to optimization of supportive care in the future

Description:

Sharing Anishinaabe teachings: changing perspectives for Indigenous patient care.

Learning Objectives:

1. Providing Indigenous perspective to the patient team.

Description:

This interactive talk will utilize a case-based approach to review skin toxicities encountered across the spectrum of oncologic therapies including both traditional chemotherapies and targeted immunotherapies. Participants will hone skills in both diagnosis and management strategies.

Learning Objectives:

By the end of this lecture, participants will be able to:

1. Utilize morphologic clues, pattern recognition and diagnostic tools to accurately identify common skin toxicities encountered in pediatric oncology patients
2. Implement effective preliminary management strategies to treat skin toxicities thereby limiting unnecessary drug decreases or discontinuations
3. Understand when dermatology consultation is indicated, and implement collaborative virtual tools to engage with dermatology expertise in resource limited settings

Description:

This session will provide an overview of what fear of cancer recurrence (FCR) is and why it matters, for both survivors and parents. We will cover a brief review of evidence-based interventions using a stepped care approach, with a focus on the Fear of Cancer Recurrence Therapy (FORT) intervention for those with high FCR. We will then explore the adaptation of FORT for both survivors of childhood cancer and their parents, including rationale, co-design process, adaptations required, and preliminary findings.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe evidence-informed strategies to support individuals with low to moderate FCR
2. Recognize when referral to a structured intervention such as FORT may be appropriate
3. Summarize the preliminary findings of the Fear of Cancer Recurrence Therapy (FORT) interventions for survivors of childhood cancer their parents

Description:

An interactive session on the successes and failures of guideline implementations.

Learning Objectives:

1. Understand an approach to implementing guidelines, and use the approach to attempt to diagnose implementation failures

Description:

This interactive session will explore practical approaches to engaging people with lived experience as true partners in quality improvement, program planning, and service design. Through storytelling, facilitated discussion, and real-world examples from pediatric oncology, participants will examine how organizations can move beyond consultation toward meaningful co-leadership with patients and families. Attendees will leave with actionable strategies to strengthen local team engagement and build sustainable partnerships that improve care experiences and outcomes.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn practical approaches for establishing and sustaining Patient and Family Advisory Councils (PFACs).
2. Hear directly from family advisors about what meaningful engagement feels like in practice.
3. Explore common barriers and lessons learned from PFAC implementation.
4. Identify one actionable change they can bring back to their own organization.

Description:
Via an interactive "Price is Right" format, we aim to bring awareness to the costs of cancer medication therapy in Ontario. We will discuss traditional chemotherapy, targeted therapies and supportive care.

Learning Objectives:

1. Bring awareness of the drug costs incurred to hospitals and the broader health care system in the treatment of pediatric malignancies
2. Give insight into the out of pocket drug costs incurred by families during a child's treatment
3. Compare different funding schema available to adults and children being treated for malignancy

Description:

Please join us for the sex and gender education you never had for pediatric oncology patients and parents. In this talk, we will briefly review terminology and the landscape of 2SLGBTQIA discrimination, followed by a deeper dive into how this can and does impact pediatric cancer care and how all of us can become allies striving to provide culturally safe and competent care.

Learning Objectives:

1. To raise awareness of the health disparities that exist for 2SLGBTQIA patients/parents, and examine their potential impacts on cancer care
2. To create and provide a safe space for learning and reflection for all attendees, no matter their background and experience
3. To inspire and educate pediatric oncology professionals on how to provide appropriate care, and become an advocate and ally for 2SLGBTQIA+ patients/parents