Baird News

The 6th Annual James Wadland Night of Hearts event was held at Café del Mar at Cockle Bay. This annual event is held by Natalie Zugec on the 2nd of April – the birthday of her late husband, James Wadland. James died from an aortic aneurysm 6 years ago and Natalie has worked tirelessly, since…

On Friday 14 December 2018, The Baird Institute celebrated the support of our donors with an afternoon tea and a tour of the Hybrid Theatre, the state-of-the-art research facility at the Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) in Sydney University. Along with many of our valued supporters, we had two very special guests in attendance; the previous…

2nd Heart & Lung Nurses Education Conference – 2018 Connected Care What makes a successful education conference? This question occupied us during months of planning leading up to The Baird Institute’s 2nd Nurses Education Conference, held on 15 September, 2018. Obviously, you need speakers who will be dynamic, interesting, entertaining and informative and because The…

We are so pleased to announce that The Honourable Michael Kirby AC CMG has agreed to become The Baird Institute’s 2nd Patron and is succeeding to the mantle of our previous patron, Professor The Honourable Dame Marie Bashir.  When he retired from the High Court of Australia on 2 February 2009, Michael Kirby was Australia’s…

The Baird Institute is excited to announce the funding of and collaboration with Vantari VR in building a Virtual Reality (VR) tool for surgical planning. The focus is on improving efficiency and outcomes for patients and is the first of its kind globally to be built for use in Aortic surgery. Professor Paul Bannon, Chair…

Sydney Imaging’s Hybrid Theatre is a new research and training hub, located in the Charles Perkins Centre (CPC) at the University of Sydney. The site was officially launched in April by Elizabeth Koff, NSW Secretary of Health who stated that “Sydney Imaging is one of Australia’s most sophisticated biomedical imaging facilities reserved for research and…

A Heartfelt thanks for surgery 60 years ago Rod Merrett was the first person in NSW to have had open heart surgery using the new American heart-lung machine.  Rod was operated on at RPA Hospital in 1957 by visiting surgeons from Johns Hopkins Hospital in the USA, he was only 9 years of age and…

Put it in your diary … DINNER DANCE FUNDRAISER Dick Shaw, one of our fabulous community fundraisers, is holding a dinner dance at Mollymook, down the South Coast of New South Wales, in order to raise funds for The Baird Institute. Dick has been operated on several times by Professor Paul Bannon and now wants…

The Baird Institute’s Christmas“Cocktails and Conversation” was held on Thursday 30 November,  2017 at the Woolloomooloo Bay Hotel. Pictured: (Left to right)  Monica Attard,  Rodney Merrett, Norman Kroehnert, Jo Dean and brothers Jake & Jason Rance, explaining what applied heart research has meant for them, their families and the wider community. Patients of  surgeons associated…