Associate Professor Andrew Cochrane AM is a cardiac surgeon with 20 years of consultant experience in both adult and paediatric cardiac surgery. He undertook advanced training at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Alfred Hospital and Royal Children’s Hospital and also trained in the United Kingdom. Assoc. Prof. Cochrane was a consultant cardiac surgeon at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne from 1995 to 2008 and has been a surgeon at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton since 2003.

While at Monash Medical Centre, Assoc. Prof. Cochrane has developed the new adolescent and adult congenital heart surgery program for patients who require either initial or on-going surgery of heart defects present since birth. Assoc. Prof. Cochrane enjoys managing all aspects of adult cardiac surgical care.

Assoc. Prof. Cochrane has been a surgeon in over 20 charitable teams in the Pacific, Timor-Leste and South East Asia. He is also involved in operating on patients brought to Melbourne through Rotary and the Children First Foundation.