Victor Peter Chang (Yam Him) was born on 21 November 1936 in Shanghai, China. He was the eldest of three children: Frances and Anthony. His parents who were Australian-born parents were called Aubrey Chang and May Lee. On the 28th of May 1938, his family had to move to Hong Kong as Shanghai was being invaded by the Japanese.
When he was 12 years old, Victor’s mother died of breast cancer. He and his mother shared a strong and unique bond which left him upset upon her death. As this sadness turned into motivation, he didn’t want others to suffer the same pain that he did. This was what made Victor Chang to realize that he had to be a doctor.
While he was at Hong Kong, he attended Kowloon Tong Primary School and St Paul’s College until 1950. After he and his sister migrated to Sydney in 1953, he went to Belmore Boys’ High School and Christian Brothers College in …show more content…
He made regular visits to China helping the patients there many times for free. He also lectured frequently in China, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Victor Chang began to research on producing an artificial heart valve in 1980. Eventually it was finished and was implanted on 1000 Chinese people. It was Victor Chang’s most significant invention.
Three years later, Dr. Chang was appointed as the ‘Honourary Director of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Research Institute’ at Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital. It was the most honourable title in China. In the same year, he was also appointed Director of ‘St Vincent’s’ Hospital Heart Transplant Unit’.
Because of Victor’s hard work, almost 300 successful heart, heart-lung and single lung transplants have been performed since 1984. In the same year Fiona Coote needed a new heart. She was from Tamworth, NSW and was the youngest patient to do a heart transplant as she was only 14 years old. Luckily Dr. Chang did a really good job in transplanting a new heart or else this young girl could have
When he was 12 years old, Victor’s mother died of breast cancer. He and his mother shared a strong and unique bond which left him upset upon her death. As this sadness turned into motivation, he didn’t want others to suffer the same pain that he did. This was what made Victor Chang to realize that he had to be a doctor.
While he was at Hong Kong, he attended Kowloon Tong Primary School and St Paul’s College until 1950. After he and his sister migrated to Sydney in 1953, he went to Belmore Boys’ High School and Christian Brothers College in …show more content…
He made regular visits to China helping the patients there many times for free. He also lectured frequently in China, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Victor Chang began to research on producing an artificial heart valve in 1980. Eventually it was finished and was implanted on 1000 Chinese people. It was Victor Chang’s most significant invention.
Three years later, Dr. Chang was appointed as the ‘Honourary Director of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Research Institute’ at Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital. It was the most honourable title in China. In the same year, he was also appointed Director of ‘St Vincent’s’ Hospital Heart Transplant Unit’.
Because of Victor’s hard work, almost 300 successful heart, heart-lung and single lung transplants have been performed since 1984. In the same year Fiona Coote needed a new heart. She was from Tamworth, NSW and was the youngest patient to do a heart transplant as she was only 14 years old. Luckily Dr. Chang did a really good job in transplanting a new heart or else this young girl could have