Dr. John Grady graduated from the Midwestern University, Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2008. He now works in Santa Cruz County, California, and specializes in Emergency Medicine, Aesthetics, and Rejuvenation Therapies. He is the 2023 recipient of the Good Times Physician of the Year.
Dr. Grady has worked at Dominican Hospital’s Emergency Department in Santa Cruz, CA, since 2011. He and his partner Samantha Brown started Harbor Health Center together in 2017 to serve Santa Cruz aesthetic and chronic pain patients. Dr. Grady then partnered with Santa Cruz Core Fitness & Rehab, where he is the Medical Director, to provide a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary approach to Pain Management modalities such as corrective exercise, HBOT, VASPER, and much more.
Dr. Grady has received medical aesthetics training from Merz University, Empire Training, and shadowing local Plastic Surgeons. He received training from the Hackett, Hemwell, Patterson Foundation (HHP and its education organization IART), Rejuv Medical’s MasterMind group, TOBI conferences, and shadowing leading practitioners around the country.
He volunteers for IART in Honduras, performing regenerative injection therapy on locals in clinics HHP/IART has been staffing since 1969. He has volunteered to assist a plastic surgeon on a medical mission to Vietnam. Dr. Grady is also an adjunct professor at Touro Univeristy’s medical school. Dr. Grady is the Medical Director at Arukah Project, which trains First Responders and Medical Professionals on recognizing signs of human trafficking.
Dr. Grady’s passion is helping people live more fulfilling and rewarding lives. When he isn’t working or studying, he enjoys spending time with his four sons, traveling with his partner, working out, sailing, biking, and spending time with his two dogs and two cats.