Surgeon Information

Jon J. Hanlon, MD

Doctor Hanlon received his medical degree from the Temple University School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1971 and then continued his medical training in the United States Navy in San Diego, California. There, he completed his internship and his orthopedic surgery residency. Following that, and still under the auspices of the U.S. Navy, he completed an additional subspecialty fellowship in hand surgery. Doctor Hanlon left the Navy as a Commander to start his own orthopedic and hand surgery practice in 1979.

While on the medical staff of Fountain Valley Regional Hospital in Orange County, California, a Level 1 Trauma Center, he was one of the five members of the orthopedic trauma team, caring not only for patients with hand and upper extremity problems, but also for those with multiple and serious general orthopedic injuries.

Doctor Hanlon has served as the chairman of the Orthopedic Department of the Naval Regional Medical Center in Long Beach, California and of the Orthopedic Committee of the Fountain Valley Regional Hospital. He is listed in Strathmore's "Who's Who" and he is a Fellow of the American Association of Hand Surgery and a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.

In Doctor Hanlon's own words:

"My practice of hand and upper extremity surgery cares for essentially all problems involving the upper extremity from just below the shoulder to the finger tips. 

That includes the treatment of all upper extremity fractures and dislocations, acute and chronic tendon and nerve injuries and other tendon and nerve conditions such as carpal tunnel syndrome;  it includes the surgical treatment of arthritis which may involve the reconstruction of arthritic joints through total joint replacement, soft tissue joint reconstruction and even in some cases, joint fusion. 

It includes the treatment of skin loss, soft tissue masses such as ganglion cysts and other soft tissue 'lumps, bumps and masses' and pain conditions due to acute or chronic elbow, wrist and hand sprains."

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