victor chang

By gerson fernandes

  • Victor Chang was born

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    victor chang

  • Victor Moved to Hong Kong

  • Victor Chang's mother died

  • Victor Chang was Educated in Hong Kong

  • Victor Migrated to Sydney, Australia

  • Finished high school at Christian Brother's High School

  • Victor Graduated University

  • Victor's First year resident medical officer at St Vinecent's Hospital

  • Victor Had training in England

  • Victor was Married Ann Simmons when he was in London

  • Victor and his family came back to Sydney

  • Victor obtained the Fellowship of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

  • Victor visits to China for the first time in 3 decades

  • Victor began research on producing an artificial heart valve

  • Victor Chang was appointed Director of St Vincent's Hospital 1st heart transplant unit in Sydney.

  • Victor was appointed as the Honorary Director of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Research-Institute, Quandong Provincial Peoples Hospital in China

  • Victor Chang receives the Advance Australia Award

  • victor performed the first heart-lung transplant in 1986

  • Victor received the Companion of the Order of Austrlia for the 'service to international relations between Australia and China and to medical science'

  • Victor Chang died aged 54, he was tragically shot twice by 2 Malayasian men. His dead body was found just next to his car along the road