Richard Jones is an Australian medical doctor. A former director at the Department of Rehabilitation Medicine and Clinical Director of the Spinal Injuries Unit at Prince Henry and Prince of Wales hospitals, he established the Post Polio clinic at these hospitals. He was Associate Professor of the School of Community Medicine at University of New South Wales, Sydney. He served as the medical officer and team leader for Australian teams at the 1976 Toronto and 1980 Arnhem Paralympics, and as medical officer and member of the Medical Science Committee at the FESPIC Games. Career Jones graduated in medicine from the University of Sydney in 1963 and spent his resident years at the Prince Henry and Prince of Wales Hospitals, Sydney He continued his Post Graduate studies at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, part of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, gaining further knowledge and experience in hospitals in the UK until 1968. On his return to Prince Henry hospital that same year, he was appointed Senior Surgical Registrar in the Professorial Unit. In 1969, he was appointed Specialist in Rehabilitation Medicine at both Prince Henry and Prince of Wales hospitals and Deputy Director of the Department, as well as Clinical Director of the Spinal Injuries Unit in 1974. The rehabilitation unit established at the Prince of Wales hospital between 1955 and 1960 included a Paraplegic Ward, due to many patients being severely impaired and needing extended rehabilitation because of the severe Polio epidemic. Jones was the driving force behind the establishment of the Post-Polio Clinic at Prince Henry hospital, the patients with spinal cord injuries being transferred from the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney in 1965. George Burniston, the first Director of Rehabilitation Medicine at Prince Henry and Prince of Wales hospitals, was to influence Jones; they established a rehabilitation service for amputees, for spinal injured patients and later for stroke patients. Jones together with his colleagues Doctor John Baggott and Professor Ben Marosszeky set up the first regular clinical meetings at the Prince of Wales hospital, later known as the Registrar Training Programme. Jones felt that social rehabilitation was the next step in saving the lives of paraplegics. From 1972 to 1997 he was a Director of the Paraplegic and Quadriplegic Association of New South Wales, the key goals being to lobby for a specialized Spinal Injuries Unit of which he was a Director, and accommodation for