John Grant (neurosurgeon)

John MacDonald Falconar Grant, AO, OBE (14 August 1922 – 10 November 2013)[1] was an Australian neurosurgeon and disability sport administrator.

[4] In 1952, he was appointed to Royal North Shore Hospital where he helped to establish its Department of Neurosurgery and Spinal Injuries Unit.

[3] Grant's interest in the role of sport in the rehabilitation for people with spinal injuries can be linked to the work of Sir Ludwig Guttman, neurologist from Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

[3] In 1958, he played a major role in organising the First Royal North Shore Hospital Games for spinal injury patients.

The Australian Team to the 1960 Rome Paralympics included eight competitors who had been patients at Mt Wilga Rehabilitation Centre and trained by Kevin Betts and Eileen Perrottet.

[3] Subsequently, the Australian Government established a national advisory committee on sports for disabled persons he was a member of.