Jul 27 2021 67 mins 1
This week's sage Neil F. Jones MD, FRCS, FACS graduated from Trinity
College, Oxford and Oxford University Medical School. He did his training
in general and orthopedic surgery and neurosurgery in England, becoming a
fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. He completed a US residency in
plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Michigan under William
Grabb MD. He returned to England for further training at the Royal London and
St. Bartholomew’s Hospitals. He completed his fellowship training in hand
surgery and microsurgery at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston with
Richard Smith MD, Jesse Jupiter MD and James May MD.
After serving as Co-Director of the Hand Surgery-Microsurgery fellowship at the
University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Jones became Chief of Hand Surgery at Ronald
Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles (1993). While at UCLA, Dr.
Jones was also Director of the UCLA Hand Surgery Fellowship Program with a dual
appointment as Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Professor of Plastic and
Reconstructive Surgery in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He left
UCLA in 2008 to develop hand surgery at the University of California Irvine and
served as Chief of Hand Surgery and Director of the Hand and Upper Extremity
Surgery and Microsurgery fellowship program. In 2019, Dr. Jones returned to
both the UCLA Medical Center and School of Medicine as a Distinguished
Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Distinguished Professor of Plastic and
Reconstructive Surgery. He is also a consultant in hand surgery and
microsurgery at Shriners Hospital in Los Angeles and Children’s Hospital of
Orange County.
Dr. Jones is nationally and internationally renowned for complex hand surgery
and microsurgical reconstruction of the upper extremity, with a major interest
in tendon transfers, congenital hand differences, toe-to-hand transfers and
microsurgical reconstruction of the upper extremity. His basic science research
has focused on experimental limb transplantation; tissue engineering of
vascularized bone and monitoring of the patency of microsurgical
anastomoses. He has received the Sumner Koch Award by the American
Society for Surgery of the Hand on 3 separate occasions. He has authored or
co-authored over 275 papers and book chapters and given over 750 presentations
including being the visiting professor at more than 52 universities and
hospitals and the keynote speaker at national hand surgery and microsurgery
societies throughout the world. He has edited two books Microsurgical
Reconstruction of the Upper Extremity - Current State of the Art
(2008) and Operative Microsurgery (2016).
Dr. Jones also served as President of the American Society for Reconstructive
Microsurgery and President of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand.
