Ian Jacobs (academic)

Ian Jacobs (born 6 October 1957) is a British academic, medical doctor, gynaecological oncologist and researcher. He began as the ninth president and vice-chancellor of the University of New South Wales in February 2015.

Jacobs was raised in North London and is an alumnus of Trinity College, Cambridge University, and UCL, having graduated Bachelor of Arts in Medicine and Law in 1980. He qualified as a Doctor of Medicine (MBBS) from Middlesex Hospital, now part of University College London, in 1983.

Further training in obstetrics and gynaecology was obtained at the Royal London Hospital and Rosie Maternity Hospital Cambridge and he became MRCOG (1991) and FRCOG (2004).

Specialist RCOG accreditation as a surgical gynaecological oncologist was awarded at Bart’s and the Royal Marsden Hospitals (1996). He completed research training as CRC (now Cancer Research UK) McElwain Fellow at Cambridge University (1990-94) and as a Medical Research Council Fellow (1990-91) at Duke University, NC USA and was awarded a Medical Doctorate (MD) from the University of London in 1991.

After qualifying as a doctor, Jacobs worked at Mount Vernon Hospital and the Royal London Hospital. In order to fund his research, in 1984 he founded The Eve Appeal (first called the Gynaecology Cancer Research Fund), a charity whose aim is to raise funds for research in gynaecologic oncology. In 1985 he began one of the largest trials for ovarian cancer screening, and began training in the field of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Addenbrooke's Hospital, which he completed in 1990.

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