Cheryl Jones (paediatrician)

Cheryl Jones is an Australian paediatric infectious disease physician and researcher. She has won several major awards and held significant leadership roles in several Australian universities.

Cheryl Jones
Personal details
NationalityAustralian
OccupationPaediatrician

Jones graduated from the University of Tasmania with a bachelor of medicine and surgery in 1987 and she became a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians (Paediatrics) in 1994.[1] She completed a PhD at University of Sydney in 2020 on the 'Immune protection against latent herpes simplex virus type 2 infection by replication-defective mutants in a mouse model'.[2]

Jones was Professor of Paediatrics and Deputy Dean of Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney from 2012 to 2017.[3] In March 2017, Jones became Stevenson Chair of Paediatrics and Head of the Department of Paediatrics at Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne.[4] In 2019, Jones became the first female Head of School and Dean for Sydney Medical School, University of Sydney.[3] Jones became Chair of the AMC’s Assessment Committee in November 2023.[5] In June 2024, she succeeded Vlado Perkovic to became the first female Dean of Medicine & Health at University of New South Wales, Australia.[6]

Jones is a board member of the Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation.[7] She is a specialist editorial adviser for the Medical Journal of Australia.[8]

She is known for her research on herpes simplex and perinatal infections.[9][10] Her work has been profiled in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.[11]

Awards

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Professor Jones was elected as a fellow of the Australian Academy of Health & Medical Sciences in 2018.[12]

Professor Jones was made a life member of the Australian Society for Infectious Diseases in 2022 for her contribution to Infectious diseases and her roles to the Australian Society of Infectious Diseases.[6]

Publications

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References

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  1. ^ "Dr Cheryl Anne Jones". AHPRA. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  2. ^ Jones, Cheryl Anne; University of Sydney. Department of Paediatrics and Child Health (1999), Immune protection against latent herpes simplex virus type 2 infection by replication-defective mutants in a mouse model, retrieved 24 July 2024
  3. ^ a b "Sydney Medical School appoints new Head of School and Dean". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  4. ^ "Welcome from Head of School". Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  5. ^ "Professor Cheryl Jones appointed as AMC Assessment Committee Chair". Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  6. ^ a b "Cheryl Jones appointed Dean of Medicine & Health at UNSW Sydney". UNSW Sites. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  7. ^ "Ramsay Health Care | Ramsay Hospital Research Foundation". www.ramsayhealth.com.au. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  8. ^ "Professor Cheryl Jones". Medical Journal of Australia. ISSN 0025-729X.
  9. ^ Jones, Cheryl Anne; Burgner, David; Curtis, Nigel; Bryant, Penelope (2018-06-28). "Antibiotics before birth and in early life can affect long-term health". The Conversation. Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  10. ^ Angela Berkhout; Vishal Kapoor; Claire Heney; Cheryl A Jones; Julia E Clark; Vikram L Vaska; Melissa Lai; Clare Nourse (3 November 2020). "Herpes Simplex Virus Infection in Infants: 13 Year Evaluation (2005-2017) of Laboratory Confirmed Cases in Queensland, Australia". The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. doi:10.1097/INF.0000000000002970. ISSN 0891-3668. PMID 33165280. Wikidata Q101466034.
  11. ^ "Cheryl Jones: cracking mysteries in paediatric infection". Retrieved 2024-07-24.
  12. ^ Anonymous (2018-10-15). "Professor Cheryl Jones - AAHMS". aahms.org. Retrieved 2024-07-24.