St Vincents Private Hospitals

Biography

Dr Jason Hockings is an experienced, Victorian trained orthopaedic surgeon based in Melbourne with subspecialist advanced training in elective hip, knee and shoulder surgery as well as upper and lower limb orthopaedic trauma surgery.

His main areas of interest are hip replacement surgery via the direct anterior approach and hip arthroscopy, as well as robotic-assisted knee replacement surgery.
 
Jason graduated from the University of Queensland in 2011 and spent five years working as a hospital and non-training orthopaedic doctor before beginning the Victorian Orthopaedic Training Program, which he completed in 2021. He has public appointments working as an Orthopaedic Surgeon at Eastern Health and St Vincent’s.
 
In 2022 he undertook a fellowship in Melbourne with Professor John O’Donnell in hip arthroscopy and total hip replacement via the direct anterior approach. He then completed an advanced training fellowship In Edinburgh, UK, where he gained expertise in complex primary and revision hip and knee replacement surgery, including robotic-assisted procedures. Upon returning to Australia in 2023, Jason undertook a further advanced arthroplasty fellowship in Gosford NSW.