Managing patients when conventional therapy isn’t tolerated

Prof Westall is a Consultant Chest Physician at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne and Adjunct Professor at Monash University with specialized expertise in CMV infections following lung transplantation. His research interests include innate immune system activation early post-transplant and its influence on clinical outcomes. Prof Westall has represented the lung transplant community as a member of the Transplantation Society International CMV Consensus Group, contributing to the development of the "International Consensus Guidelines on the Management of Cytomegalovirus in Solid Organ Transplantation”. Prof Westall has over 170 published manuscripts and has held significant leadership roles across multiple academic and medical committees, including past-Chair of the Lung Advisory Committee of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) and the Steering Committee of the Pulmonary Transplant Council of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplant (ISHLT), and serves as an inaugural member of the Organ and Tissue Authority's Transplant Liaison Reference Group.