Prof Gregory Snell is the Medical Head of the Lung Transplant Service at the Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. He undertook his Lung Transplant training at the University of Toronto in 1991 on a Will Roger’s Scholarship. He was awarded the Order of Australia Medical in 2011 for service to Respiratory Medicine and Lung Transplantation. He has a particular interest in maximising lung donation to facilitate transplantation and has worked extensively in the area of ‘extended’ lungs and donation-after-circulatory death lung donation.