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 was involved in the establishment of the New Zealand Federation of Sports Medicine in 1963. He married immunologist Barbara Farnsworth Cupit. They had two daughters: Helen, a transplant scientist; and Hilary, a food specialist.