Sir George Montario Bedbrook, OBE was an Australian medical doctor and surgeon, who was the driving force in creating the Australian Paralympic movement and the Commonwealth Paraplegic Games, and helped to found the FESPIC Games.
29 Facts About George Bedbrook
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George Bedbrook attended Coburg State School and the University High School, Melbourne.
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George Bedbrook received his bachelor's degree in medicine from the University of Melbourne in 1944.
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George Bedbrook died on 6 October 1991 in Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.
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George Bedbrook was an anatomy lecturer at the University of Melbourne from 1946 to 1950.
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George Bedbrook then moved to the United Kingdom for three years, where he worked in orthopaedics.
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George Bedbrook gained a British recognised credential in 1951 when he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons.
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In 1953, George Bedbrook moved back to Australia, where he and McKellar Hall started a private practice in orthopaedics.
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George Bedbrook started working at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1956.
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George Bedbrook headed the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Royal Perth Hospital from 1965 to 1975.
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George Bedbrook was the department's chairperson from 1979 to 1981.
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George Bedbrook was the President of the International Spinal Cord Society from 1980 to 1984.
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George Bedbrook was the president of the International Medical Society of Paraplegia.
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George Bedbrook was preceded by Professor V Paeslack of Germany and followed by Professor A Rossier of Switzerland.
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George Bedbrook earned several honorary degrees, including an honorary MD from the University of Western Australia in 1973, an honorary FRCS from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1981, an honorary Doctorate of Technology from Western Australian Institute of Technology in 1984, and an honorary FCRM from Western Australian Institute of Technology in 1987.
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The year after Guttmann's visit, George Bedbrook helped Australia to send its first team to compete in the Stoke Mandeville Games.
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George Bedbrook did extensive fundraising to help cover the travel expenses of the athletes from Royal Perth Hospital.
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In 1962, George Bedbrook was the primary organiser of the first Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Perth, Western Australia, the counterpart of the regular British Empire and Commonwealth Games.
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George Bedbrook nominated Australia for inclusion and the organisation's constitution was modified to include Australia alongside Argentina, Germany, Japan, and Rhodesia.
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In 1972, Bedbrook was replaced by Doctor J Grant on the ISMGC.
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In 1964, George Bedbrook served as the Australian team leader at the Paralympics.
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At the 1968 Tel Aviv Paralympics, George Bedbrook served as the Australian SMGF Delegate.
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George Bedbrook served on the Medical Grading Committee for the Games.
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George Bedbrook served on the Jury of Appeal for the Games.
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George Bedbrook recommended that the games be replaced by a zone based competition, similar to the Pan-American Games.
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George Bedbrook was the recipient of many distinctions and honours.
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Sir George Bedbrook established PBF Australia in 1984 as he was frustrated by the lack of financial support available for patients living with a spinal cord injury.
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George Bedbrook was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1965.
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George Bedbrook was knighted in the June 1978 Queen's Birthday Honours.