Neil Jones, MD

Neil Jones, MD

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

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Overview

Dr. Neil Jones is a hand surgeon and microsurgeon at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center.

He is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery and is nationally and internationally renowned for complex hand surgery and microsurgical reconstruction, with a major interest in tendon transfers, nerve repairs, toe-to-hand transfers and microsurgical reconstruction of the upper extremity. Dr. Jones received his medical degree from Oxford University Medical School and trained in general surgery, neurosurgery and orthopaedic surgery in England, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS).

Specialties:

  • Syndactyly – webbed fingers

  • Polydactyly – duplicated thumbs, extra fingers

  • Absent thumbs – pollicization

  • Absent fingers

  • Amniotic band / constriction ring syndrome

  • Microsurgical toe-to-hand transfers

Education and Certifications

Board Certification

Plastic Surgery, American Board of Plastic Surgery, 1985

Fellowships

Orthopaedic Hand Surgery and Microsurgery, Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital, 1983-1983

Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, The Royal London Hospital, 1982-1982

Residency

Plastic Surgery, University of Michigan Health System, 1979-1981

General Surgery/Orthopaedic Surgery/Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Wales, 1978-1979

General Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals, 1976-1977

Internship

General Surgery/Orthopaedic Surgery/Neurosurgery, Oxford University Medical School, 1975-1976

Medical School

Oxford University Medical School, MD, 1974

Affiliations

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica

Awards and Recognition

Best Doctors in America – cited for hand surgery and microsurgery every year since 1993

America’s Top Doctors

Southern California Super Doctors

Los Angeles Magazine Top Doctors

Southern California Magazine Top Doctors

Janie S. Benner Memorial Spirit Award,

National Scleroderma Foundation 2006.

Summer L. Koch Award, American Society for Surgery of the Hand 1998.

“Basic research most likely to result in a clinical advance in hand surgery.”

Summer L. Koch Award, American Society for Surgery of the Hand 1997.

“Basic research most likely to result in a clinical advance in hand surgery.”

Summer L. Koch Award, American Society for Surgery of the Hand 1992.

“Basic research most likely to result in a clinical advance in hand surgery.”