Advanced Care Planning: Courageous Conversations with Adolescents and Young Adults and Tweens?
Advanced Care Planning: Courageous Conversations with Adolescents and Young Adults and Tweens?
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Instructor
Dr. Lori Wiener
Lori Wiener, PhD, DCSW Senior Associate Scientist NCI Scientist Emeritus National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland Dr. Lori Wiener is a recent NCI Scientist Emeritus after spending 40 years working at NIH. There she built and co-directed the Behavioral Science Core and was head of the Psychosocial Support and Research Program at the pediatric oncology branch of the National Cancer Institute. As both a clinician and behavioral scientist, Dr. Wiener has developed a robust clinical and research program that has focused on critical clinical issues such as parental coping, lone parenting, transnational parenting, sibling and sibling donor experiences, graph versus host disease, and end-of-life planning. Dr. Wiener has also dedicated a substantial part of her career to applying knowledge from her clinical experience and psychosocial studies to create innovative resources such as books, workbooks, therapeutic games and an advance care planning guide for children, adolescents, and young adults. Each of these resources are distributed worldwide and widely utilized in pediatric centers. Dr. Wiener proudly led the team that has developed the first evidence-based psychosocial standards of care for children with cancer and their family members. She has published 320 publications spanning peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. Dr. Wiener has co-edited the textbooks Pediatric Psycho-Oncology: A Quick Reference on the Psychosocial Dimensions of Cancer Symptom Management and Pediatric Psychosocial Oncology: Textbook for Multi-disciplinary Care, co-authored the storybooks, The Gift of Gerbert’s Feathers, to help children through the psychological and behavioral process of preparing for a natural end of life and The Twists and Turns of the Sibling Snail Trail, to help siblings of pediatric patients find comfort from the experiences of other siblings and learn new coping strategies. Dr Wiener also co-edited a Special Issue in CHILDREN on Psychosocial Issues in Children and Adolescents Living with a Rare Condition (2023) and in CANCERS on Advances in Pediatric and Adolescent Psycho-Oncology (2025).
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Instructor
Dr. Lori Wiener
Lori Wiener, PhD, DCSW Senior Associate Scientist NCI Scientist Emeritus National Cancer Institute, Center for Cancer Research National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland Dr. Lori Wiener is a recent NCI Scientist Emeritus after spending 40 years working at NIH. There she built and co-directed the Behavioral Science Core and was head of the Psychosocial Support and Research Program at the pediatric oncology branch of the National Cancer Institute. As both a clinician and behavioral scientist, Dr. Wiener has developed a robust clinical and research program that has focused on critical clinical issues such as parental coping, lone parenting, transnational parenting, sibling and sibling donor experiences, graph versus host disease, and end-of-life planning. Dr. Wiener has also dedicated a substantial part of her career to applying knowledge from her clinical experience and psychosocial studies to create innovative resources such as books, workbooks, therapeutic games and an advance care planning guide for children, adolescents, and young adults. Each of these resources are distributed worldwide and widely utilized in pediatric centers. Dr. Wiener proudly led the team that has developed the first evidence-based psychosocial standards of care for children with cancer and their family members. She has published 320 publications spanning peer-reviewed papers and book chapters. Dr. Wiener has co-edited the textbooks Pediatric Psycho-Oncology: A Quick Reference on the Psychosocial Dimensions of Cancer Symptom Management and Pediatric Psychosocial Oncology: Textbook for Multi-disciplinary Care, co-authored the storybooks, The Gift of Gerbert’s Feathers, to help children through the psychological and behavioral process of preparing for a natural end of life and The Twists and Turns of the Sibling Snail Trail, to help siblings of pediatric patients find comfort from the experiences of other siblings and learn new coping strategies. Dr Wiener also co-edited a Special Issue in CHILDREN on Psychosocial Issues in Children and Adolescents Living with a Rare Condition (2023) and in CANCERS on Advances in Pediatric and Adolescent Psycho-Oncology (2025).
