Conference themes include:
- client – professional encounters (involving doctors, counsellors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, speech and language therapists, psychotherapists etc.)
- communicating risk and uncertainty
- communication in chronic disease
- communication in palliative care
- communication skills training
- distributed expertise among professionals and clients
- disturbed patient
- ethics and communication
- evidence in diagnosis and non-diagnosis
- health and disability
- health, wellbeing and the lifespan
- health literacy
- health technologies and medical informatics
- healthcare services and organisations
- interpreter-mediated healthcare delivery
- intercultural communication in health
- interprofessional communication and hospital management systems
- media and health communication
- medical education
- mental illness
- narratives of illness experience
- patient centricity
- patient empowerment
- public understanding of health and illness
- quality of life and quality of care
- representation of the body
- research ethics
- simulated patient training
- (shared) decision making
- tailoring health messages
- telemedicine
- values and responsibilities in professional practice
