opened in 1973. She was Senior Nurse and Assistant Manager for the Inaugural South Australian National Spinal Games held at the Hampstead Centre in 1964, Senior Nurse at the Asia Pacific Games Tokyo, in 1972, and organised the National Paralympic Games, interstate, every two years. Appointed a member of the medical team at the 1968 Summer Paralympics, Tel Aviv, Israel, Tyler gave her professional support and care to the 32 athletes of the Australian team, many of whom had a disability from a spinal injury, winning 32 medals from 7 sports to finish fourth on the medal tally. This was the first team to include South Australia athletes at the Paralympic Games which, at that time, only catered for wheelchair athletes. Tyler said Looking after my boys and girls, my Para Quads, was my life, at an interview on being awarded the medal OAM, the Order of Australia, in recognition of a long and distinguished career particularly in the field of spinal injury rehabilitation. Tyler's 'boys and girls' include Australian Paralympians Kevin Munro, Richard Oliver, Troy Andrews, Neil Lillecrapp, Kevin Bawden, Libby Kosmala Tyler was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for her contributions to nursing and spinal cord injury rehabilitation. See also Australia at the 1968 Summer Paralympics References 1933 births Living people Australian nurses Paralympics Australia officials Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia Australian women nurses