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      Victor Chang

Victor chang was born in Asia and mirgrated to Australia. He was one of Australia's best heart surgeons.

He was born in 1936 in Asia

Dr Chang was one of the world's leading heart surgeons and a fine cardiac

 researcher when he was murdered in Sydney in 1991 at the age of 55. He was Chinese as well as  Australian. He had a younger sister and brother and he had  a wife called Ann. Victor Chang was born in Shanghai, china. He was born in 1936. He came to Australia as a teenager. His mother died of cancer when he was just 12. It was then he decided to became a doctor. He later graduated as a doctor, his skillful hands and original thinking were put  to work designing brilliant technological innovations. Chang travelled to Australia by boat. Chang moved to Australia after his mother passed away

Between 1984 and 1990 Dr. Chang's unit performed over 197 heart transplants and 14 heart lung transplant. The unit had a high rate of success with 90% of those receiving transplants from the unit surviving beyond the first year. In 1986, Victor Chang was appointed a Companion of the order of Australia.In recognition of service to international relations between Australia and China and to medical science.

Victor chang died on the 4th of July 1991 at the age of 55



A pioneer of the modern era of heart transplantation, Victor

Chang was responsible for the establishment of the National

Heart Transplant Unit at St Vincent's Hospital in 1984, lobbying politicians and raising

funds for its ongoing work. During the 1980's he also travelled and lectured

extensively in Asia and formed the Australian Chinese Foundation which sponsored

South-East Asian doctors, nurses and students improving the quality of patient care

in their own countries.

Dr Chang was an original thinker and saw the need for research and development