Technology to Advance Care and Outcomes for Pediatric Cancer Survivors
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Forum Description
Childhood cancer survivorship is a rapidly expanding frontier in oncology. Advances in therapy have created a large and diverse survivor population, but with survival comes a lifetime of evolving medical, psychosocial, and financial needs. Survivors must navigate late effects of treatment, transitions into adult care, insurance and access barriers, and gaps in supportive resources. This Forbeck Forum will bring together leaders in pediatric oncology, survivorship research, digital health, and health systems innovation to explore how technology can reshape survivorship care. Discussions will focus on harnessing digital tools—from electronic health records and big data analytics to mobile applications, wearable technologies, and AI-enabled platforms—to better anticipate survivor needs, enhance care delivery, and support daily life. A special emphasis will be placed on bridging the gap between pediatric cancer centers and the primary care and community providers who care for survivors in adulthood, ensuring continuity, equity, and access across the lifespan.
Important goals for this forum include:
- Consider digital tools to personalize survivorship care, support self-management, and connect survivors with resources in real time.
- Anticipate future needs of survivors as they age and face changing health risks, exposures, and life circumstances.
- Close the gap between pediatric and adult care by strengthening handoffs, building referral networks, and embedding survivorship guidelines into community practice.
- Identify ways to enhance and adapt care delivery incorporating interoperable health records, AI-driven navigation, and technology-enabled access to specialized expertise.
- Promote equity by ensuring that innovations reach underserved populations and address psychosocial, cultural, and financial barriers.
SESSIONS
Harnessing Big Data and Digital Tools to Personalize Survivorship Care
Exploring how registries, interoperable electronic health records, and real-world data can be leveraged to identify risks, optimize guidelines, and enable predictive modeling—while also giving survivors and providers access to portable, patient-centered health information.
Anticipating Future Needs Across the Survivor Lifespan
Projecting how survivor needs evolve over time—medical, psychosocial, and financial—and how digital tools can help predict, plan, and allocate resources as survivors transition into adulthood.
Closing the Gap: Enhancing the Delivery of Survivorship Care
Addressing the critical handoff from pediatric oncology to primary care and community-based adult providers. Topics include embedding survivorship resources into electronic health records, expanding referral networks, and equipping providers with digital tools and guidelines to deliver evidence-based care outside major cancer centers.
Translating Technology Into Supportive Solutions for Survivors
Focusing on the clinical implementation of digital health interventions—apps, telemedicine platforms, wearable devices, and AI-enabled navigation tools—to support daily survivorship, reduce isolation, and deliver culturally competent care across diverse settings.
Important program Note
Additional Consensus Session – Wednesday, October 29
All participants from "Subsequent Cancer Risk After Pediatric Cancer" and "Technology to Advance Care and Outcomes for Pediatric Cancer Survivors" will meet from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM to review what was discussed in their respective Forums. Lunch will be served promptly at 12:00 PM. Following lunch, the airport shuttles will depart later than originally scheduled to accommodate the extended program: the first shuttle leaves at 1:00 PM, and a second shuttle will be available at 3:00 PM.
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Sponsoring a Forbeck Forum is a powerful way to directly support groundbreaking cancer research by fostering collaboration among top scientists in the field. These intimate, focused meetings bring together leading researchers to share ideas, challenge assumptions, and spark innovative approaches that can accelerate progress toward cures. Your sponsorship helps cover the cost of hosting these unique gatherings, ensuring that vital conversations and partnerships continue to thrive. It's an investment in science, in collaboration, and ultimately, in better outcomes for patients.
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Venue & Travel Information
269 Fontana Boulevard
Fontana, WI 53125
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Travel Forms
Please familiarize yourself with our travel policy below before booking your travel. If you have any questions about our policy, please do not hesitate to contact us for clarification.
Travel forms are due 30 days prior to the start of the forum to allow enough time to plan transportation.
Chicago's O'Hare Airport (ORD) is the preferred airport as it allows for easier bookings, less transfers, and ease of grouping participants into shuttles.
- Arrival day of the forum at approximately 12:00 PM, 2:00 PM and 5:00 PM
- Departures from the venue at approximately 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM
For any other arrival times at Chicago's O'Hare airport, ground transportation must be arranged and paid for by the individual.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT GROUND TRANSPORTATION
To maximize funding for our Forums, the Foundation does not reimburse ground transportation costs outside the designated shuttle pick-up times. If you arrive after the final shuttle, or do not wish to wait for or take a scheduled shuttle, you will be responsible for arranging and covering your own transportation to the Forum venue.
Travel Policy & General Information
Travel Policy
Please familiarize yourself with our policies and procedures for travel. We truly appreciate you taking the time to participate in this meeting. As you make your plans please remember that we are a nonprofit organization dependent on donations and volunteers. So please note what we do and do not cover.
What the Foundation Pays For
- ACCOMMODATIONS for the nights of the Forum only. People traveling from oversees or far away may arrive 1 night early to adjust for jet lag or to navigate longer travel times.
- MEALS are provided by the foundation during the forum.
- A TRAVEL ALLOWANCE FOR AIRFARE will be set based on an economy ticket from your home airport. If you have travel before or after that is fine. We do not increase the allowance for other travel plans.
- The Foundation provides SHUTTLES TO/FROM THE AIRPORT to the meeting venue at designated shuttle times.
- You can select not to utilize Foundation arranged transportation at your own expense when completing the travel form.
What the Foundation does not cover
- We do not cover upgrades of any kind.
- Travel Allowance will not be increased due to late booking or changes.
- We do not cover incidental costs during your travel. So please do not send your food receipts.
- We do not cover additional nights at the venue outside of the meeting dates.
- We do not cover transportation outside of the designated shuttle times.
- We do not reimburse for home side airport transfer (to/from your home/office to your airport).
Important Things to Note
- Everyone must fill out the travel form!
- We must have your itinerary and travel receipt to receive reimbursement.
- Flights must be booked at least 30 days prior to the meeting or you may not have accommodations and airport transfer.
- We often use volunteers for airport transfers.
- The travel confirmation will be sent out the WEEK before your Forum.
- The speaking agenda will be spent out the NIGHT before your Forum.
- We expect participants to attend ALL sessions.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Travel Confirmation will be sent out with in 1 week of the meeting. This will include a hotel confirmation number, if there is one, airport transfer details. We have to wait until we receive almost everyone’s travel to book airport transfer. Also due to frequent airline changes we wait until the week of the meeting to send this out.
- Speaker agenda is not sent out prior to the meeting. It will be provided upon arrival in the meeting packet. We do not tell people when they are speaking because we expect everyone to attend all sessions. Sessions are all day Friday and Saturday.
- Frequently airport transfer is provided by volunteers. Please be patient on receiving this information. Airport transfer will be sent out prior to arrival.
Abstracts
Abstracts are due 30 days prior to the start of the meeting to allow enough time to prepare the meeting book.
The abstracts should be only one or two paragraphs outlining the theme of your presentation and should reflect the objective and spirit of the meeting (see above). Abstracts will be circulated about one week before the meeting. The meeting organizer will start requesting them a month before the meeting.
Forum Structure
The structure of the forum has been developed over years of experience.
- Participants have approximately 45 minutes, depending on the number of participants, for their presentation and discussion. The presentation is meant as a conversation start and should last about twenty minutes briefly covering background information and areas that are new or need further input. This should be structured in such a way as to lead to a lively discussion. Participants are encouraged to interrupt to ask questions or start discussions.
- Each presentation is limited to 2 slide equivalents. Slides should include no more than one graph or gel per slide and a maximum of 5 bullet points. Avoid animations or motion effects. Slides should support discussion, not serve as a script. Thank you for adhering to the spirit of this format.
- A Whiteboard and markers will be available to supplement your digital slides.
- Everyone is expected to actively participate in every session and discussions.
- The time spent at the forum is relatively short, so please be familiar with papers received prior to arrival.
- It is very important that you commit to all sessions of the 2 days of the forum.
Forbeck Scholars Participation
Scholars are selected for each Forbeck Forum. These are outstanding junior clinical or post-doctoral fellows selected based on the quality and relevance of science.
- Scholars present for 30-45 minutes, depending on the number of participants
- The same presentation rules apply for scholars
- After the Forum you are selected to attend, you will attend three years of Scholar Retreats held in Lake Geneva, WI. If you attend a Fall Forum, you will attend the Spring Retreat. If you attend a Spring Forum you will attend a Fall Retreat.
- Scholars are selected by the Foundation Scientific Advisory Board and peer reviewers selected from past Forbeck Scholars.
General Program
Frequently Asked Questions
Below are some of our most Frequently Asked Questions. If you have something new to ask, please feel free to contact us.
- Travel Confirmation will be sent out within 1 week of the forum. This will include a hotel confirmation number, if there is one, and airport transfer details. We have to wait until we receive almost everyone’s travel to book airport transfer. Due to frequent airline changes, we wait until the week of the meeting to send this out.
- Airport transfer is provided by Foundation staff, volunteers or arranged shuttle at specific times. If you opt to utilize Foundation airport transportation on your travel form, please be patient in receiving this information. We will send it to the week of the forum.
- Speaker agenda is not sent out prior to the meeting. It will be provided upon arrival in the meeting packet. We do not tell people when they are speaking because we expect everyone to attend all sessions. Sessions are all day.
- Frequently airport transfer is provided by volunteers. Please be patient on receiving this information. Airport transfer will be sent out prior to arrival.
- REMINDER: We do not reimburse for home side airport transfer or incidentals while traveling. We will not honor miscellaneous receipts sent for these expenses.