Clinical
Specialty
Dr. Jones clinical practice focuses exclusively on Hand Surgery and Reconstructive
Microsurgery.
Hand Surgery in adults and children
Wrist Surgery
Nerve Surgery in the upper limb
Reconstructive Microsurgery
Clinical Interests
Dr. Jones has extensive expertise in:
Minimally invasive surgery for Dupuytren's Contracture
Endoscopic
Carpal Tunnel Release
Revision Carpal Tunnel Surgery
Wrist Fractures
Nerve Injuries: microsurgical repair and reconstruction
Tendon
Injuries
Degenerative and Rheumatoid Arthritis of the wrist
and hand
Hand Deformities in Children
He has unparalleled experience in reconstruction of children's
hand deformities with microsurgical toe-to-hand transfers and
complex microsurgical reconstruction of the forearm, wrist, and
hand.
Research Interests
The main emphasis of Dr. Jones basic science research is on Hand Transplantation
and Nerve Transplantation and clinical research in microsurgical Toe-to-Hand
transfers in children and adults.
He has authored 200 scientific papers and
40 book chapters and has given over 550 presentations at national and international
meetings.
Background
Dr. Jones graduated from Trinity College, Oxford University in 1971 and Oxford
University Medical School in 1974. He trained in general surgery in England
becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. After completing a further
residency in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Michigan
from 1979-1981, he returned to England for a fellowship in Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery at the Royal London Hospital and St. Bartholomew's Hospital in 1982,
followed by a second fellowship in Orthopedic Hand Surgery and Microsurgery
at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston and Harvard Medical School
in 1983.
He was appointed Assistant Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh in 1984 and became Associate Professor
and
Chief of Hand Surgery and Microsurgery in 1989.
Dr. Jones was recruited to
become Chief of Hand Surgery at UCLA Medical Center in Los
Angeles and Director of the UCLA Hand Surgery Fellowship in 1993
with
a dual appointment as Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Professor of
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in the UCLA School of Medicine.
After 15 years as Professor and Chief of Hand Surgery at UCLA
Medical Center, he moved to become Professor and Chief of Hand
Surgery at UC Irvine in
2008 and Director of the UC Irvine Fellowship in Hand and Upper Extremity
Surgery.
Medical Degree
Oxford University, 1974
Residency
General Surgery- Oxford University
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery- University of Michigan
Fellowship
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery:
Royal London Hospital and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, England
Orthopedic Hand Surgery and Microsurgery:
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston and Harvard Medical School
Awards
Dr. Jones is recognized nationally and internationally as a hand surgeon and microsurgeon and has been recognized as one of the "Best Doctors in America" for both hand surgery and for microsurgery in every edition since 1992.
He has been a Visiting Professor at more than 35 universities and hospitals, including the Kazanjian lecturer at Harvard University; the Richard Smith lecturer at Massachusetts General Hospital; the Barwick lecturer at Duke University; the Robert Ivy professor at the University of Pennsylvania; the Lawrence Schneider lecturer at Thomas Jefferson University and the Joseph Boyes lecturer at USC.
Dr. Jones has been the keynote speaker for:
Canadian Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery
Taiwan Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Taiwan Society for Surgery of the Hand
Korean Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Korean Society for Surgery of the Hand
British Society for Surgery of the Hand
Indian Association of Plastic Surgeons
Korean Society of Microsurgery
Japanese Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery
Swiss Society for Surgery of the Hand
Chinese Microsurgery Society
He has been an associate editor of the Journal of Hand Surgery.
Dr. Jones was the President of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery 2008-2009. He is currently the President of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand 2015-2016.
The Best Doctors in America, Woodward White 1992 - 2016 - cited for hand surgery and microsurgery
America’s Top Doctors, Castle Connolly 2016 - hand surgery
America’s Top Doctors for 15 years 2000 - 2016, Castle Connolly - hand surgery
Best Doctors in Los Angeles 2016 - hand surgery
Physician of Excellence Orange County Medical Association 2016 - hand surgery
Orange Coast Top Doctors 2016 - hand surgery
Super Doctors of Southern California Hall of Fame 2006-2016
Board Certifications
Fellow Royal College of Surgeons
American Board of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Certificate of Added Qualifications in Surgery of the Hand
Latest News...
2018 Douglas Lamb Keynote Speaker - British Society for Surgery of the Hand
Visiting Professor - Bambinos Gesu Hospital, Vatican, Italy
John Sacks Visiting Professor - University of Washington, Seattle
June 2016
Dr. Jones was an invited speaker at the Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand (FESSH) meeting in Santander, Spain and spoke on “Major hand trauma in children” and “Post-traumatic reconstruction of the thumb and fingers in children.”
April 2016
Dr. Jones was one of the keynote speakers at the European Masters in Microsurgery of the Upper Extremity Course in Florence, Italy and gave presentations on “Toe-to-hand transfers in adults and children,” “Nerve grafting – indications and surgical techniques” and “Congenital anomalies of the hand.”
April 2016
Dr. Jones was the Visiting Professor in the Department of Hand Surgery at the University of Modena, Italy and spoke on “Microsurgical reconstruction of the hand in children” and “Failed carpal tunnel surgery.”
March 2016
Dr. Jones was an invited speaker for the Combined Meeting of the Australian Hand Surgery Society and the American Society for Surgery of the Hand in Sydney, Australia and gave presentations on “Microsurgical reconstruction of the hypoplastic thumb” and “Long-term followup of Pyrocarbon arthroplasty of the thumb carpometacarpal joint.”
2015 Dr. Jones was one of two editors of the major textbook on microsurgery.
Operative Microsurgery. Boyd JB, Jones NF. McGraw Hill Education, New York.
November 2015 Dr. Jones travelled to Cambodia along with six other hand surgeons from Australia and Thailand to provide hand surgery services to children and adults in Phnom Penh. The team taught over 50 surgeons in the first practical course in Cambodia on “Techniques in Hand Surgery.” In addition, Dr. Jones gave presentations to the Cambodian Society for Surgery on “The mangled hand – strategies for evaluation and management” and “Soft tissue coverage of hand and upper limb injuries.”
June 2014 Dr. Jones was an invited speaker for the inaugural Jesse
B. Jupiter International Hand Forum in Boston and gave presentations
on “Combined
injuries,” “Scaphoid non-union” and “Radial
tunnel and pronator syndromes.”
May 2014 Dr. Jones was the Keynote Speaker at the Chinese Microsurgery
Society forum in Xian, China and spoke on “Indications
for reconstruction of congenital hand anomalies with toe-to-hand
transfers.”
April 2014 Dr. Jones was one of the Keynote Speakers at the European
Federation of Microsurgical Societies meeting in Barcelona,
Spain and
gave a presentation entitled “Pediatric microsurgery.”
August
2013 Along with 4 other surgeons, Dr. Jones travelled
to Cambodia on a mission to reconstruct both hand injuries
in adults
and children born with hand deformities. He also taught
26 Cambodian
surgeons in the first course on microsurgery held in
Cambodia at Sihanouk Hospital Center for HOPE in Phnom Penh.
Recent
publications include:
Jones NF, Machado G. Tendon transfers for reconstruction
of radial, median and ulnar nerve injuries – Current
surgical techniques. Clinics in Plastic and Reconstructive
Surgery
38: 621, 2011.
Jones NF, Ahn HC, Eo SR. Revision surgery
for persistent and recurrent carpal tunnel syndrome and for
failed carpal
tunnel release. Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery 129: 683-692, 2012.
Lee H,
Eo SR, Cho S, Jones NF. The surgical release of Dupuytren’s
contracture using multiple transverse incisions. Archives
of Plastic Surgery 39; 426-430 2012.
Jones NF, Jupiter JB, Lalonde
DH. Common fractures and dislocations of the hand. Plastic
and Reconstructive Surgery 130: 722-736,
2012.
Woodward JF, Heller JB, Jones NF. PyroCarbon implant
hemiarthroplasty for trapeziometacarpal arthritis. Techniques
in Hand and
Upper Extremity Surgery 17: 7-12, 2013.
Jones NF, Kaplan J. Indications for toe-to-hand
transfers for reconstruction of congenital anomalies of the
hand. Hand
8: 367-374, 2013.
Recent book chapters include:
Hansen S, Jones NF. Silastic MCP and PIP joint arthroplasty.
In: Arthritis of the Wrist and Hand. American Society for Surgery
of the Hand, 2012.
Jones NF. Tendon transfers. In: Converse’s
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery. Neligan P(Ed). Elsevier,
Philadelphia,
PA, 2012.
Jones NF. “Toe-to-hand transfers for congenital
anomalies of the hand.” In: The Art of Microsurgical
Hand Reconstruction. Slutsky DJ (Ed). Thieme, New York, 2013.
