Neil F. Jones, MD, is a director of the UC Irvine Hand Center and an orthopedic surgery professor at University of California Irvine Health in Orange. He is the vice president of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand and a past president of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery. He has served as an associate editor of the Journal of Hand Surgery. He previously served as chief of hand surgery at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Dr. Jones has a professional interest in hand, wrist and nerve surgery as well as reconstructive microsurgery, minimally invasive surgery for Dupuytren's Contracture and endoscopic carpal tunnel release. He also has expertise in the reconstruction of pediatric hand deformities with microsurgical toe-to-hand transfers. His basic science research is focused on hand transplantation and nerve transplantation. Dr. Jones' work has been published in prestigious journals, such as Techniques in Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery and Hand.
After earning his medical degree at Oxford University in the United Kingdom, Dr. Jones completed his plastic and reconstructive surgery at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He has completed an orthopedic hand surgery and microsurgery fellowship at
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, both located in Boston.
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