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At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:

• Describe the four main patterns of placental injury, as established by the 2016 Amsterdam Workshop Group.  
• Describe the proposed layout of the standardized placental pathology report, as established by the Perinatal Committee of the Society for Perinatal Pathology, guided by input from the Amsterdam Workshop Report, obstetricians and neonatologists, as well as patient advocacy organizations. 

At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:

• Discuss details of a bereavement training program that can be successfully adapted to LMIC, high burdened countries while being respectful of culture. 
• Describe comments of Ugandan parents that show positive responses to bereavement care after the loss of their stillborn baby.   

At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:

• Describe how parent voice and experience increase awareness to potential trauma and anxiety that patients feel inside/outside of hospital/clinic walls.   
• Discuss how clinicians implement valuable suggestions, consistent with the International Rainbow Clinic Model of Care, to improve pregnancy after loss outcomes and better support patients through an improved continuum of care.  

At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:

• Detail the impact of prior loss on subsequent pregnancy outcome  
• Identify components of specialist pregnancy after loss services  
• Describe how specialist “pregnancy after loss” services can improve physical and psychological outcomes in pregnancy after loss 

At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:

• Explain three factors that influence stillbirth disclosure 
• Identify three strategies to manage conflicts in stillbirth disclosure 

At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:

• Describe the importance of grief support for our couples undergoing pregnancy loss. 
• Discuss that the most important question that couples have who have pregnancy loss is, “Why did this happen?”  
• Discuss some of the reasons why clinicians are frustrated by not having answers for couples as well as resources to give an exact cause for unexplained pregnancy loss.   
• Discuss the importance of products of conception testing using genetic sequencing methodologies.  
• Articulate the importance of a comprehensive placental pathology report. 

At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:

• Review the relationship between thrombosis, thrombophilia, and pregnancy.  
• Describe the data supporting thrombophilia as an underappreciated cause of infertility.  
• Discuss the role of anticoagulation for treatment of thrombophilia-associated infertility. 

At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:

• Discuss how preeclampsia affects the pregnancy.  
• Identify possible biological targets for future therapies.  
• List the most promising candidate therapies for preeclampsia. 

At the conclusion of this activity participants will be able to:

• Describe historical and current challenges to perinatal loss prevention and care
• Discuss stillbirth prevention initiatives being used in the UK and Australia
• Identify opportunities to incorporate successful care strategies into clinical practice