St Vincents Private Hospitals

Biography

Dr Jason Hockings is a Victorian-trained orthopaedic surgeon with subspecialist expertise in hip and knee and surgery.

Jason completed his orthopaedic training in Victoria in 2021 and has since undertaken multiple post-fellowship training programs, including a Melbourne-based fellowship with Professor John O’Donnell in hip arthroscopy and anterior hip replacement and advanced training in Edinburgh, UK, with a focus on complex and revision joint replacements and robotic-assisted techniques. He later completed an advanced arthroplasty and sports fellowship on the NSW Central Coast. 

His surgical interests include hip replacement via the direct anterior muscle-sparing approach, hip arthroscopy and sports hip surgery, arthroscopic sports knee surgery, robotic-assisted hip and knee replacement, and subvastus muscle-sparing advanced kinematically aligned knee replacement surgery. 
 
He is committed to delivering high-quality, individualised, patient-centred care across both public and private settings. His main focus is hip and knee surgery. He has public appointments at St Vincent's and Box Hill Hospitals. 
 
Interests:

• Hip Replacement via Muscle-Sparing Direct Anterior Approach
• Kinematically-Aligned Knee Replacement via Muscle-Sparing Subvastus Approach
• Hip Arthroscopy and Sports Hip Surgery
• Knee Arthroscopic and Sports Knee Surgery
• Complex Primary and Revision Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery
• Robotically-Assisted Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery
• Trauma Surgery