Emeritus Professor Ivor Jones - Psychiatrist

MD, FRCP, FRANZCP, FRC, Psych

Professor Jones gained his medical degree from the University of London in 1954.  In 1968 he was awarded the John F Williams Prize from the Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.  Professor Jones is a Fellow of the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists.

He was extensively involved in:

• teaching in the University of Melbourne, Department of Psychiatry, St Vincent’s Hospital from 1967 to 1987;
• examinations in psychiatry for final year MB BS students at the University of Melbourne.

He has been a member of a state Mental Health Review Tribunals and Chairman of a Mental Health Services Ethics Committee.

From 1984-1989 he was Editor for the Australian Forensic Psychiatry Bulletin.

Emeritus Professor Jones has been involved in about 100 publications in refereed journals on:

• Forensic Psychiatry
• Schizophrenia
• Epidemiology of Psychiatric Illness
• Animal Models in Psychiatry
• Psychiatry and General Medicine