Victor Chang Biography
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Dr. Victor Chang (Yam Him), was born in Shanghai of Australian-born Chinese parents. He was born in 1936 and died in 1991, aged just fifty-five years. He first came to Australia in 1953, to complete his Secondary schooling at Christian Brothers College in Lewisham. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor Of Medicine and a Bachelor Of Surgery in 1962, then he became an intern and after that a registrar in Cardiothoracic Surgery at St.Vincents hospital in Sydney.
He obtained a Fellowship in Surgery from the English and American College of Surgeons in about 1972. He returned to St.Vincents after doing so to join the Elite St.Vincents Cardiothoracic Team, which already incorporated Dr...