VIENNA -- Exude happiness, don't cling on to the past, keep the long-term goal in your mind, and focus on the 99% that unites rather than the 1% that separates. These are among the top lifestyle tips of Prof. Paul Parizel, who's successfully reinvented himself since relocating from Belgium to Western Australia in September 2019.
At the end of ECR 2025, we asked Parizel for his thoughts about this year's congress. He also elaborated on the evolution of radiology and his latest research projects, including the use of radiomics in prostate cancer detection. Additionally, he tells us about the sizable wave of young doctors from the U.K. and Ireland who continue to move to Australia (for this clip, see 8 mins 50 secs into the video below).
"They are coming en masse, particularly the Irish" said Parizel, adding that a famous photo snapped on Cottesloe beach in 2023 by The Post newspaper in Perth illustrates the sheer scale of the migration (see x.com/DrChrisLukeCork/status/1612010954631548929). This social media post read: "Why would anyone work in a diabolical @HSE_HR (Irish Health Service Executive) where you’re undervalued, underpaid + made a laughing stock of the nation by Irish media + politicians when you could join 400+ colleagues in AUS?"
Parizel was president of ECR 2017, and he is now the inaugural David Hartley chair of radiology at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and director of the Western Australia National Imaging Facility (WA NIF) Node in Perth. Before leaving Europe in September 2019, he was chair of radiology at Antwerp University Hospital in Belgium.
Video produced by Christof.G.Pelz | GRAFIFANT Creation | www.grafifant.at | 2025.
