Surgeons, including Marc Walker, MD, perform a hand surgery.
A closeup shot of a physician examining a patient's hand.
From left, Dr. Somprasong Songcharoen, Dr. Suthin Songcharoen, Mary Jabaley and Dr. Marc Walker celebrate the creation of the Jabaley-Songcharoen Center for Hand, Upper Extremity and Nerve Surgery.
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Jabaley-Songcharoen Hand Center

The Jabaley-Songcharoen Center for Hand, Upper Extremity and Nerve Surgery is a multidisciplinary collaboration of board-certified hand surgeons, certified hand therapists and affiliated health care professionals offering the highest level of care for the entire scope of hand, upper extremity and nerve conditions in children and adults.

Specialists provide care for common complaints, such as carpal tunnel syndrome and rotator cuff injuries, to the most complex cases including brachial plexus injuries and upper extremity cancer reconstruction.

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Contractures
Hand and Wrist
Microsurgery
Pediatric Congenital
Peripheral Nerve
Shoulder and Elbow

Executive Director's Welcome

The Jabaley-Songcharoen Center for Hand, Upper Extremity and Nerve Surgery represents the first, multidisciplinary clinical collaboration of its kind at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. With experts in both plastic surgery and orthopaedic surgery working together, we provide patients and learners with the best of all approaches to care for hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder diseases and injuries.

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Marc Walker, MD, Director of the UMMC Hand Center
The UMMC Difference

As part of an academic medical center, including the state’s only children’s hospital, we are a high-volume and high-acuity center for hand and upper extremity pathology. In addition to treating the entire breadth of elective hand surgery problems, such as carpal tunnel, we provide expert care with multidisciplinary support for diseases and injuries of the hands and upper extremities, including complex nerve conditions, polytrauma and all pediatric surgical procedures.

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