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.