After a career of 40 years including more than 30 years at the Canberra Hospital, gastroenterologist Dr Paul Pavli is retiring but not stepping away entirely from the great challenge of solving inflammatory bowel disease.
He is retiring from day-to-day patient care but will continue his roles in teaching at the ANU School of Medicine and Psychology and working in research, including focusing on finding a cure for inflammatory bowel disease, of which Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis are the most common forms and which, in half the cases, affect people under the age of 27.
"It's becoming more common and we don't really understand why," he said.
