Ian Jones is president of the Canadian Association of Physician Assistants. Mr. Jones is a PA in the field of neurosurgery, and a member of the PA faculty at the University of Manitoba, office of physician assistant studies. He is a fellow and director-at-large of the American Association of Neurosurgical Physician Assistants. He is a contributor to the book So You Want to be a Physician Assistant (Beth Grivett, 2009). Mr. Jones is also a former firefighter and paramedic.