University of Sydney at Westmead Hospital, Sydney, NSW Philip O'Connell is a Clinical Professor in Medicine, University of Sydney at Westmead Hospital. He is director of transplantation and medical director of the National Pancreas Transplant Unit. He is also director of Australia's Clinical Islet Transplant Consortium and has had a long research commitment to islet transplantation, especially in the field of islet xenotransplantation. He is president-elect of The Transplantation Society and a past president of the Transplantation Society of Australia and New Zealand.