My name is Max Weder. I am the Medical Director of Lung Transplant at UVA. I spend the majority of my clinical time treating and evaluating lung transplant patients. Patients with advanced lung disease who are being considered for a lung transplant come to my team for an evaluation. New patients can expect to be seen by a group of highly trained professionals that are trying to see the patient not as a summary of diagnoses but as an individual, very much acknowledging some of the fears and concerns that go into the process. 

I think the field of lung transplantation is unique in that it's a very extreme form of medicine and, I think, a very rewarding experience in general in that we get to see people when they're usually at a low point in their life and being told that they have advanced lung disease for which there are usually no viable medical treatment options. To be able to see how these patients then are oftentimes able to resume more or less a normal life is a very rewarding experience.