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mother died when he was 12 years old
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migrated to Australia when he was 15 years old
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From 1955 Victor Chang attended the University of Sydney where he graduated as a Bachelor of Medicine
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From 1963 to 1967, Victor was a doctor and then later on a Registrar in Cardiothoracic surgery at St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney
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He was the founder and president of the Australasian-China Medical Education and Scientific Research Foundation.
Concerned about a shortage of organ donors, he arranged financing and assembled a team of scientists and engineers from around the world to develop an artificial heart. -
Between 1984 and 1990, Dr Chang’s unit performed over 197 heart transplants and an amazing 14 heart-lung transplants.
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In 1984, Chang and his team performed the first heart transplant at St Vincent’s on a young girl called Fiona Coote, who was in desperate need of a new heart.
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Paul Keating who was the P.M. at the time opened the Victor Chang cardiac institue
