Sydney Sports Medicine Centre is delighted to welcome  new Registrar, Dr Jacob Jewson, who will begin consulting in early April.

Dr Jacob Jewson, BMedSc(Hons) MBBS(Hons) is a first-year registrar in sport and exercise medicine.

He has previously worked at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne for three years, predominantly in orthopaedics, trauma and emergency medicine.

Over the past three years he has also gained experience in sports medicine in Aussie Rules football in Melbourne working for the University Blues in the Victorian Amateur Football Association, Footscray in the VFL and the Western Bulldogs in the AFLW.

He is looking forward to extending his sports medicine experience into rugby league and rugby union while working in Sydney.

He is involved in a number of research projects and has a special interest in the role of metabolic diseases in tendinopathy, having completed an honours year on this subject.