Baird News

To all the wonderful supporters of the Baird Institute, I send greetings and good wishes. This has been a truly extraordinary year. Nothing quite like it since the scourge of the Spanish Flu in 1919, which even an old-timer like me did not witness. The grim news of COVID brought frightful danger; the repeated warnings…

Welcome to Professor Martin Misfeld Co-Director of Research, Cardiothoracic Department, RPAH We warmly welcome Prof Martin Misfeld. Martin is a Clinical Professor and Visiting Medical Officer in Cardiothoracic Surgery at RPAH. He is also the Co-Director of Research in the Cardiothoracic Department and a Senior Cardiothoracic Academic Advisor and International Proctor within RPA’s Institute of…

The Charles Perkins Centre, The University of Sydney The Sydney Heart Bank (SHB) is the largest repository of cryopreserved human hearts in the world (17,000 samples). It was established in 1989 by Cris Dos Remedios (Emeritus Professor University of Sydney) and the Late Victor Chang AC (Cardiothoracic surgeon at St. Vincent’s Hospital Sydney). It has…

Recently The Baird Institute and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital began supporting The Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISSN 2225-319X), an international bi-monthly peer-reviewed publication, dedicated to the field of cardiothoracic surgery, with the primary aim of providing critical analysis and comprehensive overview of contemporary topics within the field. The interplay of best clinical evidence, surgical education…

On Thursday December 2019, a High Tea was held to thank all supporters of The Baird Institute for their generosity and to provide an update on the work of The Institute.  We all gathered at The Strathfield Event Centre for a delicious High Tea overlooking the golf course on a rather hot and hazy afternoon. …

Take A Deep Breath’s first meeting was held on Saturday 23 November at Kingsgrove RSL with nurses, Clare Brown and Andrea Scholes facilitating the group. A physiotherapist from RPA, Associate Professor Lissa Spencer, presented to the Take a Deep Breath group on the importance of exercise pre and post-surgery.  Her pulmonary rehab classes at RPAH…

Minimally invasive robotic assisted thoracoscopic surgery has evolved as a safe and efficacious procedure for patients with lung and pleural diseases in the United States and Europe. Through small incisions, surgeons are able to control a variety of instruments to excise lung and mediastinal cancers with three-dimensional magnified vision, seven degrees of freedom of movement…

The Baird Institute has launched its Workplace Giving Program where employees can make small regular donations out of their pay to charities, through their employer’s payroll system. Workplace giving has been adopted by many companies in Australia who want to work together with their staff to create the greatest collective impact possible for charities. Workplace…

The first meeting of Heart to Heart took place on Saturday 19 October, 2019 at Strathfield Private Hospital (SPH) with the assistance of the SPH Cardiac Coordinator, Cassy Board.  A dietitian came to the meeting to provide tips and advice on diet and nutrition post-surgery, while a heart surgery patient who had been operated on…