Elisabeth Coll Torres, MD PhD, is specialist in preventive medicine and public health. She works since 2006 in the Spanish National Transplant Organization (ONT) and has recently been named Head of the Medical Department. She is also Associate Professor for Biostatistics in the Faculty of Medicine of the Alfonso X University, Madrid. She has a large experience in training and research, especially in the development of different programs focused on donation and transplantation activity, such the design and implementation of the Spanish action plan to promote donation after circulatory death or the management and analysis of the Lung Transplantation Spanish Registry. During her career she has participated as an expert in several WHO Regional Consultations and in European Commission working groups. She is also author of many articles and chapters of books on donation and transplantation.