Dr Chang’s Work Continues – update from Dr Jiang in Beijing

Dr Wenjian Jiang, the Victor Chang Foundation’s inaugural grant recipient and Surgical Fellow from China, has been putting the skills and knowledge he learnt here at St Vincent’s, Sydney into practice.

Since his Fellowship ended just over a year ago, he now has his own team in Anzhen Hospital, Beijing. Dr Wei has performed around 20 heart transplant surgeries, as well as focusing on the valve repair that he learned under Dr Jansz’s team. Recently he was awarded his Cardiac Surgeon Professorship and is now a senior consultant; this means he can now have masters and PHD students working with him. 

He said: “Many thanks to the Victor Chang Foundation for giving me this precious chance.”

Dr Victor Chang believed passionately in sharing knowledge and skills, particularly in Asia, in cardiac surgery in order to give patients the greatest opportunity to live longer.  The Victor Chang Foundation grants money in two areas and Dr Wei’s success fulfils one of the VCF’s missions to train surgeons in order to give them the opportunity to take new skills and knowledge back to their home countries.

Please make a donation today to continue Dr Victor Chang’s work: https://victorchangfoundation.com/donate