News & Events

Our Head of Surgery and Research, A/Prof David Winlaw, was interviewed by Bloomberg this week about new research that suggested around 10% of congenital heart defects may come from spontaneous gene mutations (meaning gene mutations that aren't inherited from a parent).  Read the full article here.

A/Prof Winlaw and his research team are currently involved in a number of studies to better understand the genetics behind congenital heart disease.  For more information, go to our research page.

Welcome to our new and improved Heart Centre for Children website.  There has been a lot of work behind the scenes building a site that offers as much relevant information as we can for families, medical practitioners and donors.  We hope you like the new format and pages. 

There is always room for improvement though so please contact us or send in some feedback with your thoughts and ideas.

A wonderful group of Mums have formed a group called the Zipper Tickers and have been working hard to organise a gala dinner in Newcastle on the 27th of July this year, and were interviewed by The Newcastle Herald this week.  Check out the article here.  Some of the Heart Centre team will be heading up to Newcastle for the weekend so please come and join us to support the Zipper Tickers and raise some much-needed funds for a new cardiac ultrasound (echo) machine for the department.  The more the merrier!  Click here for details.

We are lucky enough to receive cards and letters from patients and families on a regular basis, but I couldn't resist sharing this one with you.  William has been a patient of ours for a while now and wrote this lovely message to Dr David Winlaw, one of our cardiac surgeons.  It came with a self-portrait of William with Dr Winlaw which we love.  Beautiful work, William!

Dr Ian Nicholson (Cardiac Surgeon), Dr Phil Roberts (Cardiac Interventionalist) and Dr Ashish Katewa (Surgical Fellow), together with staff from The Children's Hospital at Westmead and other hospitals around Australia recently went to Cambodia as part of Operation Open Heart, a not-for-profit organisation that provides cardiac services to children in developing countries.  There, the group met some very special little patients and their families.

See the photos from their trip here.