Nuclear Medicine keeps on growing in many clinical areas, from diagnostic imaging to therapy: our procedures are increasingly being incorporated into clinical practice, in a variety of settings and diseases. This success is mostly related to a peculiar characteristic of our specialty, namely the functional approach to medicine. PET imaging works so well because of the unique functional information provided to clinicians, and this feature is the key to the ongoing rapid diffusion of Nuclear Medicine.

In recent years, the status of the EANM Congress as the world-leading meeting in Nuclear Medicine has been firmly established. The number of attendees in 2019 exceeded that in any previous year, with more than 6950 participants, but we are working to make the 2020 event even bigger, more memorable, and virtual.