Prof Glen Westall
Professor Glen Westall is a highly regarded specialist in the area of advanced lung disease, specifically in the fields of lung fibrosis and lung transplantation.
He is Consultant Chest and Lung Transplant Physician at The Alfred. He oversees an active research program that receives both national and international research grants. For his work in transplantation, he was the first non-American recipient of an International Career Development Award.
Prof Westall sits on a number of local, national and international academic/medical committees and is past-Chair of the Lung Advisory Committee of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ), the peak advisory board to the National Transplant Authority. He is Chair of the Advanced Lung Failure and Transplantation Steering Committee of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT), the leading multidisciplinary global community for cardiothoracic transplantation. He is a foundation member of the Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) Collaborative Research Consortium and is a chief investigator of the NHMRC Centre of Excellence in Lung Fibrosis.
His career to date has been built on the principals of clinical excellence supported by a rigorous research, teaching and academic platform.