Tristan Yan

Professor Tristan Yan is the Head of Thoracic Surgery Department, at Chris O’Brien Lifehouse Cancer Centre; Head of Robotic and Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Programs at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and the Sydney Adventist Hospital; Clinical Professor of Surgery at the University of Sydney; and Professor of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the Macquarie University in Sydney Australia. He is a visiting Professor of Cardiac Surgery at St Bartolommeo’s Heart Centre, in London, United Kingdom. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery.

He graduated from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) with Bachelor of Science (Medicine), Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. He completed three postgraduate higher degrees, Master of Surgery (USyd), Doctor of Medicine (UNSW) and Doctor of Philosophy (UNSW). He was trained at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney and then obtained Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Following advanced fellowships in the United States, England, Scotland and Germany, he specialises in major aortic surgery, minimally invasive heart and lung surgery.

He has authored or co-authored more than 300 articles and textbook chapters, with an h-index of 49 and approximately 8400 citations. His Collaborative Research (CORE) Group is responsible for establishing and organising the world’s largest multi-institutional Aortic ARCH Registry, consisting of 14,000 patients and the multi-center Sutureless Aortic Valve Registry.