John Gorman (physician)

{{Short description|Australian medical researcher}}

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John Grant Gorman {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100|sep=,|ACh}}, (born c. 1931){{Cite news |date=2022-11-01 |title=A vial of human serum, an ice box and an illegal flight: how an Australian doctor saved millions of babies' lives |language=en-AU |work=ABC News |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-02/john-gorman-rh-disease-treatment-millions-newborns-saved/101532694 |access-date=2022-11-02}} is an Australian physician and medical researcher. In 1980, Gorman shared the Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award for pioneering work on the rhesus blood group system, the role of rhesus D antibodies in the causation of Rh disease and the apparently paradoxical prevention of Rh disease using the Rh antibodies themselves, in the form of Rho(D) immune globulin, as treatment.{{cite web|title=Vaccine for preventing Rh incompatibility in newborns|url=http://www.laskerfoundation.org/awards/show/vaccine-for-preventing-rh-incompatibility-in-newborns/|website=Albert and Mary Lasker Foundation|accessdate=4 September 2016}}{{cite book|last1=Thompson|first1=Gilbert|title=Pioneers of Medicine Without a Nobel Prize|date=2014|page=163|publisher=World Scientific |isbn=9781783263868|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_dK3CgAAQBAJ&q=Pioneers+of+Medicine+Without+a+Nobel+Prize&pg=PR9}}

Since its discovery, Gorman's treatment is estimated to have saved millions of lives.

Gorman was appointed an Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) on 19 July 2024 For "eminent service to medicine in co-discovering and pioneering a treatment for Rhesus disease for worldwide benefit to humanity."{{cite web |title=Honorary Companion of the Order of Australia |url=https://www.gg.gov.au/sites/default/files/2024-07/20240719%20Gazette%20C2024G00443.pdf |publisher=Commonwealth of Australia Gazette |access-date=20 July 2024}}