Melbourne Orthopaedic Group, VIC

MBBS, DipANat

Mr Hoy specialises in hand and wrist surgery including trauma, all forms of shoulder surgery and a particular interest in elbow surgery.

He performs a significant amount of his surgery under arthroscopic control and is at the forefront of technology with development in all aspects of upper limb surgery.

Mr Hoy is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Surgery of Monash University and works as a Hand and Upper Limb Surgeon at Melbourne Orthopaedic Group. He has extensive teaching commitments at all levels of medical and paramedical training.

Melbourne born and educated, Mr Hoy completed his medical training at Monash University. From an early age, he had an interest in Sports Medicine and was involved with Prahran Football Club and the state and national cricket teams for many years. After completing his surgical training, Mr Hoy joined the Melbourne Orthopaedic training programme, which he completed in 1991. He is dual qualified as a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons and the Australian College of Sports Physicians.

Following his Orthopaedic training, Mr Hoy spent two and a half years in postgraduate training both in Australia and overseas. He spent time in Fellowships with Dr Ian Henderson in Melbourne, Sportsmed SA in Adelaide and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford and Wrightington UK. For six months, he was also a travelling Fellow, primarily in the US and Germany. Mr Hoy returned to Melbourne to join Melbourne Orthopaedic Group in 1993 and was a Visiting Surgeon at the Alfred Hospital from 1993 to 2002.

He is secretary of the Victorian Hand Society and a member of the Australian Hand Surgery Society. Mr Hoy is a past secretary of the Australian Shoulder and Elbow Society and is an associate member of the AFL Medical Officers Association. With a double degree in sports physician training as well as upper limb orthopaedic training, he is ideally suited to specialised upper limb sports injury management.

Mr Hoy’s practice has an emphasis on sporting injuries and he maintains close ties with many sporting teams and organisations, including Australian Institute of Sport (AIS), Victorian Institute of Sport (VIS), Melbourne Storm (NRL) Rugby League Football Club, Australian Basketball Team, Athletics Australia and Australian Football League (AFL) Teams in Victoria.