Qualifications: BM BCh (1995), DM (2003), FRCS (1999), MA (1996)
GMC Number: 4210492
Clinical Areas of Interest: Service provision and quality of care
Regional Chapter: Oxford
Biography
Biography: Oliver Jones DM FRCS
Current post
Consultant Colorectal Surgeon and Clinical Director for Surgery, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Specialities
Mr Oliver Jones specialises in minimally invasive surgery for cancer, diverticular disease and inflammatory bowel disease, proctology, pelvic floor surgery and endometriosis.
Training and background
Mr Oliver Jones graduated in 1995 from the University of Oxford. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of London in 1999 during junior doctor posts at Northwick Park and St Mark’s Hospitals in London. He then returned to Oxford for two years of research towards a Doctor of Medicine (DM) degree involving research into mechanisms of faecal continence and defaecation, their disorders and treatment. He undertook his registrar training in the Wessex region before completing his training at the Royal Brisbane Hospital in Australia.
Research and teaching
Mr Jones’s research has won him a number of prizes including the BJS Prize at the Association of Coloproctology, the Norman Tanner Prize at the Royal Society of Medicine and culminated in election as a Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons in 2005. Mr Jones has also published two books and over a hundred journal articles and book chapters.