• 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

  • Celebrating over 40 years of training and innovation

    Celebrating over 40 years of training and innovation

  • 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

  • Over 40 years since Fiona Coote’s Heart Transplant

    Over 40 years since Fiona Coote’s Heart Transplant

  • Victor Chang Foundation recycling campaign banner featuring a surgeon in blue scrubs and a message about recycling to fund a heart surgeon from August 2026 to August 2027.
  • Over 40 years of training surgeons from Asia

    Over 40 years of training surgeons from Asia

  • 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

  • A man with glasses and dark hair looking serious while holding a glass lab apparatus in a dimly lit room.

    Innovation

 DONATE today to Fund a heart surgeon   

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.

  • Medical team performing surgery in an operating room.

    What We Do

    Continue Dr Chang’s work in Australia and Asia.

  • A group of healthcare professionals, mostly women, dressed in medical scrubs and surgical caps, smiling and sitting or standing in a clinical setting.

    About Dr Chang

    Read more about Dr Victor Chang.

  • A healthcare professional in blue scrubs and cap stands smiling in front of a large, colorful portrait of a man in a medical uniform holding a smartphone, with medical supplies in the background.

    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

Continuing Dr Chang’s work

The Foundation has funded the training of almost 100 surgeons from 10 countries around Asia. We also fund innovation in heart surgery.

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.

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