History

Launch of the EANM Mentorship Programme bringing together emerging talents and experienced professionals

Official launch of the EANM AI Committee, in charge of:

• Promoting research, education, and implementation of secure AI-based tools
• Defining and publishing best practices and guidelines
• Collaborating with EANM internal groups, scientific societies, and organisations on AI-focused initiatives
• Interacting with policymakers and EU initiatives

A record breaking EANM’24:

• 8680 participants from 136 different countries
• 2609 submitted abstracts
• 764 678 Virtual Platform Hits

First edition of the EANM Next-Gen Programme, offering young professionals free registration and accommodation for EANM’24

Official launch of the INSPIRE by EANM programme, featuring its exhibition at EANM’24 and sponsorship of the EANM Science Day

Official launch of the EANM Councils:

• Ethics Council
• Guidelines & Publications Council (GPC)
• Policy & Regulatory Affairs Council (PRAC)
• Young Professionals Council (YPC)

• EANM’23 welcomes over 7,000 participants
• EANM brings together over 3,000 individual members
• EANM represents
  40 National Societies and
  20 Affiliated Societies
• ESMIT gathers over 1,100 attendees

• First post-pandemic onsite Congress in Barcelona, Spain (7,095 participants including exhibitors, 3,978 square meters of net exhibition space)
• Creation of the EANM Policy & Regulatory Affairs Committee (PRAC)

Launch of the EANM Women’s EmpoWErment Initiative (WE)

Online editions of the EANM Annual Congress (2020, 2021)

First EANM Focus Meeting, held in Valencia, Spain (‘Molecular Imaging and Theranostics in Prostate Cancer’)

• EANM 2.0.: change of management and transition to a more professional approach
• ESNM changes name and becomes ESMIT (European School of Molecular Imaging & Therapy)

First EANM Young Investigators Meeting (YIM)

EANM’07, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, gathers over 4,500 participants, including exhibitors

Creation of the EANM Research GmbH (EARL)

First Technologists’ Guide (‘Parathyroid Scintigraphy’)

Establishment of the first EANM Executive Office in Vienna

Creation of the European School of Nuclear Medicine (ESNM)

European Commission Directive recognises nuclear medicine as an independent medical speciality

First EANM Congress

The first EANM Annual Congress took place in 1988 in Milan, Italy. Since then, the EANM Annual Conference has been taking place in multiples countries across Europe

Creation of the EANM in London, UK

EANM was founded as a result of the fusion of the Society of Nuclear Medicine Europe and the European Nuclear Medicine Society

First of 12 meetings of the Linking Committee of the Society of Nuclear Medicine Europe (SNME) and the European Nuclear Medicine Society (ENMS)