Mark Jones

Mark Jones is an adjunct senior lecturer at the University of South Australia with 35 years of experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate physical therapy. Mark graduated from the University of Florida with a BSc in Psychology and then completed his physical therapy studies at the University of Iowa. Having developed an interest in manual therapy, Mark traveled to Australia to study manipulative physical therapy and, after completing his graduate diploma in 1985 under Geoff Maitland, he completed his Master’s degree by research in 1989. The title of his thesis was “Facilitating Students’ Clinical Reasoning in Physical Therapy Education”. Mark worked clinically, taught and published with Geoff Maitland and continues to promote integration of contemporary physical therapy research and theory into the Maitland Concept. Mark has a special interest in biopsychosocial health care and the teaching and assessment of clinical reasoning in physical therapy. He has conducted and supervised research in the areas of clinical reasoning and musculoskeletal physiotherapy with over 90 publications including three editions of the text Clinical Reasoning in the Health Professions and two editions of the text Clinical Reasoning for Musculoskeletal Practice. Mark has presented 30 keynote conference presentations and has taught professional development courses in clinical reasoning and musculoskeletal physical therapy across 30 countries.