Professor Philip Jones has been the Associate Dean (Education) for UNSW Medicine since January 2006. He graduated from Sydney University in 1976. He was awarded Fellowship as a Physician in Infectious Diseases before completing a PhD in Immunology at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University in 1987. He is currently a senior staff specialist in the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Prince of Wales Hospital and has a conjoint appointment to the Prince of Wales Clinical School.

In 2000, he was awarded a Master of Higher Education following studies in the UNSW Professional Development Centre. He was involved with the development of the current Medicine program from the inception of its planning in 1998. In 2010, he received a Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence.