Baird News

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…

There has been a significant paradigm shift towards increasing minimal access surgery within the field of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Training in minimally invasive techniques is important for the future of our specialty program. Our academic surgeons, Tristan Yan, Brian Plunkett, Christopher Cao and Martin Misfeld held the first Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery course – The Human…

The Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery (ACS), an international bi-monthly peer-reviewed publication, is proud to announce that it has received its inaugural Impact Factor of 2.895. This excellent result places ACS as the fourth most highly ranked journal dedicated to cardiothoracic surgery. Read more about the ACS here.

Anita Law took part in the City to Surf this year and completed the 14km race in under 2 hours.  She managed to raise $1400 for The Baird Institute by getting friends, family and colleagues to sponsor her.  We thank Anita for her support and dedication to our cause.

Professor Tristan Yan has been appointed as the clinical lead of the Minimally Invasive and Robotic Cardiothoracic Surgery Program at RPAH. He has performed more than 1000 minimally invasive cardiothoracic procedures with excellent clinical outcomes. To enhance the RPAH Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgical Program, Professor Martin Misfeld, the co-director of Leipzig Heart Centre (Europe’s largest…