The conference is directed at a wide audience with an interest in radiation protection in medicine.
In particular:
• Health professionals, e.g. physicians practising in radiological imaging, nuclear medicine and radiotherapy; referring medical practitioners.
• Medical physicists, radiographers and technologists; radiation protection professionals and engineers.
• Healthcare managers, health economists and risk communication experts.
• Representatives of patient organizations and manufacturers; health researchers and academics.
• Representatives of health authorities and regulatory authorities with a special responsibility in this field.

The main purpose of the conference is to take stock of the progress made following the Bonn Call for Action and thus assess impact. The coverage includes optimization and justification in medical exposure; safety in medical use of ionizing radiation; and also radiation protection of medical staff and public, when ionizing radiation is used for diagnosis, intervention, therapy or research. There should be input from multiple health professions using or prescribing ionizing radiation, such as all relevant groups of physicians, medical physicists, radiographers, nurses, engineers, as well as from patients, regulatory authorities, health service managements, health authorities and policy-makers.
Preliminary list of topics

1. Activities relating to the Bonn Call for Action, and their impact
2. Justification in the use of radiation in medicine
3. Radiation protection of patients and staff in diagnostic radiography, fluoroscopy and CT
4. Radiation protection in mammography, dental and maxillofacial imaging and other diagnostic modalities
5. Radiation protection of patients and staff in interventional procedures
6. Radiation protection in medical exposures of children and pregnant women
7. Radiation protection of patients and staff in radiotherapy including brachytherapy
8. Learning from unintended and accidental exposures in medicine
9. Radiation protection of patients, staff and the public in diagnostic and therapeutic nuclear medicine and hybrid imaging
10. How are we strengthening radiation safety culture in healthcare?
11. How are we fostering and improving the radiation benefit/risk dialogue?
12. How are we meeting radiation protection challenges in design and implementation of new medical technologies?
13. How are we meeting challenges in patient dose recording, tracking and data management?
14. Regional radiation safety campaigns
15. Topics for future research and development in medical radiation protection