John Heslop

John Herbert Heslop (21 March 1925 – 21 June 2014) was a New Zealand surgeon noted for his treatment of burns. He was also active as a sports—particularly cricket—administrator, serving as president of the New Zealand Cricket Council from 1987 to 1989.

Biography Heslop attended the University of Otago, graduating MB ChB in 1950 and ChM in 1959. He was a lecturer, senior lecturer and then associate professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Otago from 1957 to 1984.

In 1960 he was appointed surgeon-in-charge of the Dunedin Hospital burns unit, and served as president of the Australia and New Zealand Burns Association and as the New Zealand representative on the committee of the International Burn Society. For a time he was the president of the New Zealand Cancer Society and, between 1983 and 1987, he chaired the research advisory committee of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS).

He married immunologist Barbara Farnsworth Cupit. They had two daughters: Helen, a transplant scientist; and Hilary, a food specialist.

In 1990, he and his wife Barbara Heslop were joint recipients of the Sir Louis Barnett Medal awarded by the RACS. He was an honorary medical officer to both the Otago Rugby Football Union and New Zealand Cricket.

Heslop died in Dunedin in 2014.

Heslop Medal To commemorate Heslop's work and that of his wife, Barbara Heslop, the Heslop Medal was established by the RACS in 2004 to recognise and reward outstanding contributions to the Board of Basic Surgical Education and Training and its committees.