• Smiling male nurse in scrubs with mask around neck, sitting against a tiled wall.

    "Giving people with heart Disease an opportunity to live is the greatest gift

    Dr Victor Chang

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  • A smiling woman with shoulder-length blonde hair and blue eyes, wearing a blue and white striped shirt against a plain white background.

    Fiona Coote Patron of the Victor Chang Foundation

  • A black and white photograph of a group of people smiling and posing outdoors under a tree, with cars parked in the background.

    8th April 1984. 40 years since Fiona Coote’s heart transplant

  • A young woman and a man sitting together, smiling at the camera in an indoor setting, with a white wall and an empty black chair nearby.

    8th April 1984. Fiona was 14 years old at the time of her heart transplant

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    8th April 1984 marks 40 years since Fiona Coote received her new heart

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    Celebrating 40 Years: Innovation & Education

  • Smiling male healthcare professional in scrubs and glasses standing against a tiled wall with a face mask hanging around his neck.

    "Giving people with heart disease an opportunity to live is the greatest gift."

    Dr Victor Chang

  • A healthcare worker wearing a surgical mask, glasses, and a cap, attending to a patient in a medical setting with IV bags hanging.

    Teaching and Sharing Knowledge

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    Innovation

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Dr Victor Chang established the Victor Chang Foundation in 1984. The Foundation grants funds in two specific areas that Dr Chang felt passionate about: EDUCATION and INNOVATION.

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    What We Do

    Continue Dr Chang’s work in Australia and Asia.

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    About Dr Chang

    Read more about Dr Victor Chang.

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    Grants and Fellowships

    Funding education and innovation.

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“Whatever you give, if you give freely and without conditions it’ll come back to you two-fold.“

Dr Victor Chang

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Continuing Dr Chang’s work

The Foundation has distributed grants to train over 200 surgeons from around Asia. We also grant funds to be innovative in the field of heart surgery.

Learn more about the Heart and Heart Surgeries

A memoir of internationally acclaimed heart surgeon Victor Chang (1936-1991), written by his daughter and Foundation CEO, Vanessa Chang.

Her book talks about his career in heart surgery and the first heart-lung transplant to the development of an artificial heart.

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All proceeds from the sale of this book go to the Victor Chang Foundation