Heroes with Big Hearts

Surgeons at the Royal Children’s Hospital have pulled on their tights to raise awareness for childhood heart disease.

On 26 May 2017, The HeartKids Super Boss Day saw bosses dressed up as their favourite superheroes to raise funds for HeartKids Australia. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Donatello, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael aka, cardiac surgeons Associate Professor Christian Brizard, Professor Igor Konstantinov, Dr Johann Brink, and Professor Yves d’Udekem were on hand to help fight childhood heart disease, the leading cause of death in babies.  There is currently no known cause and cure for CHD