What did victor chang do
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Victor Chang
Chinese-born Australian cardiac surgeon (1936–1991)
Victor Peter ChangAC (born Chang Yam Him; 21 November 1936 – 4 July 1991) was a Chinese-born Australian cardiac surgeon and a pioneer of modern heart transplantation in Australia.
His murder in 1991 stunned Australia and is considered one of the most notorious in the country's history.[1][2] Chang was given a state funeral, and in 1999 he was voted Australian of the Century at the People's Choice Awards.[3][4][5]
After completing his medical studies at the University of Sydney and working in St Vincent's Hospital, he trained in the United Kingdom and the United States as a surgeon before returning to Australia. At St Vincent's Hospital, he helped establish the National Cardiac Transplant Unit, the country's leading centre for heart and lung transplants. Chang's team had a high success rate in performing heart transplants, and he pioneered the development of an artificial heart valve.[6] In 1986, he was appointed a Companion of the Order of Austral
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In Australia, Dr Victor Chang was probably best known for his pioneering work on the heart transplant team at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney. The publicity generated from the first really successful transplant on Fiona Coote in 1984 was significant. He also lobbied the Australian government and politicians to grant $1 million to St Vincent’s to establish a heart transplant unit and was successful in achieving this.
Witnessing the slow and painful death of his mother, suffering from breast cancer when she was only 33 years old, was the most significant event of Victor Chang’s young life and the primary influence upon his decision to study medicine.
In 1951, at the age of fifteen, to avoid the political turmoil in Hong Kong at the time, his father placed him on a steamship headed to the unfamiliar shores of Australia. He arrived three weeks later, speaking no English and was enrolled via a relative at Christian Brothers High School, Lewisham. He graduated from Sydney University in 1962 with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery. In 1984, ten years after assisting in a heart tr
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1936 On 21 November, Dad is born Chang Yam Him and given the English name Victor Peter Chang, in Shanghai, China, son of Aubrey Chang and May Chang (nee Lee).
1938 The Chang family moves to Hong Kong (Kowloon) after the Japanese invasion of Shanghai. Sister Frances is born.
1940 As tensions between China and Japan flare up once again, the Chang family leaves Hong Kong bound for Rangoon, Burma, where Aubrey is waiting for them. Brother Anthony is born.
1941 The Japanese bomb Rangoon and the family travels east along the Burma Road to Yunnan Province in south-west China, where they stay for several months. On this trip, they lose all their possessions when their transport lorry rolls over a steep cliff. After several months, they leave once more and head north to Chung King, China’s wartime capital. Dad starts preschool at the age of five.
1945 The Japanese surrender and the family returns to Kowloon Tong in Hong Kong. Dad attends Kowloon Tong Primary School.
1948 Dad nurses his mother who is diagnosed with breast cancer. However, on 7 April—after a long battle—May
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