David Weill, MD

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Dr. Weill is the former Director of the Center for Advanced Lung Disease and Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Program at Stanford University Medical Center. He is currently the Principal of the Weill Consulting Group which focuses on improving the delivery of pulmonary, ICU, and transplant care.

Dr. Weill’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Salon, Newsweek, the Chicago Tribune, STAT, the Washington Post, The Hill, LitHub, Tablet, The Times of Israel, TODAY.com, and the Los Angeles Times. He also has been interviewed on Fox, CNN, and The Doctors television show and by the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Wall Street Journal. Dr. Weill’s memoir Exhale: Hope, Healing, and A Life in Transplant was published in May of 2021. His novel, All That Really Matters, was published in June of 2024.

Dr. Weill serves on the TransMedics Board of Directors and the ZEPHYRx Strategic Advisory Board. He also serves on the Scientific Advisory Boards of GlycosBio, Zambon, and the National Stone, Sand, and Gravel Association. Dr. Weill has served on several non-profit boards including the Tulane Medical School, Xavier University of Louisiana, SFJAZZ, the Isidore Newman School, the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) Foundation, KatyCares, NextGen Personal Finance, and the Bellevue Literary Review. He is also on the Advisory Council of the Wake Forest Center for Entrepreneurship.

Dr. Weill divides his time between New Orleans and Alys Beach, FL with his wife Jackie and two daughters, Hannah and Ava, and their dogs, Lucy and Frannie.