AATB Learning
2025 Webinar Series: Supporting Family Conversations on Whole Body Donation: Honoring Legacies and Maximizing the Gift (Group)
Includes a Live Web Event on 01/29/2025 at 2:00 PM (EST)
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- Non-member - $150
- Member - $50
Description: This webinar will highlight the special relationship that one Tissue Recovery Agency has with their local Non-Anatomical Donation Organization to support all facets of donation outcomes: from tissue donation for transplant to research and medical education. We will discuss best practices in educating and caring for donor families through this process and highlight ways these two types of organizations can share donor information to maximize the gift of donation and leave donor families with the comfort that their loved one will leave a lasting legacy.
Target Audience: Donation Professionals, Social Workers, Hospice and Palliative Care Staff, Patient Advocates.
Alli Reilly, MS, CCLS
Family Services Coordinator II
Infinite Legacy, Inc.
Alli Reilly currently works as a Tissue Family Services Coordinator at Infinite Legacy, supporting families through Tissue and Eye donation in Maryland, Washington DC, and Virginia. She has also worked in ICUs throughout Maryland supporting families of Organ, Tissue and Eye donation as an Organ Family Services Coordinator. She has 5 years of experience in donation, and prior to her time in our industry, was a Certified Child Life Specialist for 13 years supporting pediatric patients and their families in Radiation Oncolgy and Adolescent Medicine at Johns Hopkins and in Pediatic Oncology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Alli holds a master's degree in Applied Developmental Psychology. When not supporting donor families, she likes being outside at the baseball field or driving range with her son and husband, or hiking and riding bikes with her daughter.
Corinne Bell, MS, RD, CTBS
Executive Director, Chief Operations Officer, and Treasurer of the Anatomy
Corinne is the Executive Director, Chief Operations Officer, and Treasurer of the Anatomy Gifts Registry (AGR), a non-profit whole body donation program. AGR is one of the accredited Non-transplant Anatomic Donation Organizations, or NADOs. Corinne has over 12 years of experience in non-transplant tissue banking ranging from donor family services through research client services and executive management. Corinne has been active in the AATB Ad-Hoc committee, recently turned council, working on the physical assessment and risk assessment guidance documents, among other projects.
Corinne has Bachelor's and Master's of Science degrees in human nutrition, focusing on clinical nutrition and epidemiology, and has completed her clinical dietetic internship at the University of Maryland,Medical Center, and holds a Registered Dietitian (RD) credential, and has been a Certified Tissue Banking Specialist (CTBS) since 2009.