PROF IAN JONES

CURRENT APPOINTMENTS:

Honorary Colorectal Surgeon Royal Melbourne Hospital

VMO Melbourne Private Hospital and Epworth Hospital

Clinical Professorial Fellow, Department of Surgery, University of Melbourne

PAST APPOINTMENTS                   

Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Royal Melbourne Hospital 1987-2022

Head of Colorectal Surgery Unit, Royal Melbourne Hospital 1999-2012

Chairman, Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

1999-2001

President, Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand 2004-2006

Chairman, Colorectal Surgical Society of Australia and New Zealand Foundation Board

Deputy Chairman, Victorian Surgical Consultative Council

Member, Training Board in Colon and Rectal Surgery

Foundation Member CSSANZ 1988

Patron, Colostomy Association of Australia

UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION

Faculty of Medicine, University of Melbourne 1970-75

POST GRADUATE TRAINING

Resident Medical Officer and Surgical Registrar, Royal Melbourne Hospital 1976-1982

Chief Resident, Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation,

Cleveland, USA 1984-1985

Research Fellow, Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Foundation,

Cleveland, USA 1985

Honorary Clinical Assistant, St Marks Hospital of Diseases of the Colon and Rectum,

London 1986

ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

MBBS, University of Melbourne, 1975

FRACS, 1982

FRCS (England), 1984

Fellow of American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, 1998

STATEMENT OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

After graduating MBBS in 1975 and completing specialist training in General Surgery (FRACS) in 1983, Professor Jones obtained further specialist training in the field of colon and rectal surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation from 1983 to 1985 which culminated in a return as an Associate Staff Surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic in 1986-1987.  He was appointed a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1987 and became Head of the Unit in 1999.  He has maintained a particular interest in the surgical management of colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, anorectal disorders and colonoscopy.  His professional executive activities include membership of the Executive of the Section of Colon and Rectal Surgery of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons from 1989 to 2001, the last two years of which he was the Chairman.  He was a member of the Council of the Colorectal Surgical Society of Australasia from 2001-2006, the last two years of which he served as President of the Society.  Professor Jones has maintained an active role in the specialist training in colon and rectal surgery was a member of the Training Board in Colon and Rectal Surgery from 1993 to 2011.