A/Prof Jonathan Kong

Where possible Associate Professor Jonathan Kong uses minimally invasive surgery techniques to maximise outcomes and minimise healing times for his patients.

Whether surgical or medical management is chosen, A/Prof Jonathan Kong values highly the time spent explaining the condition and treatment to the patient and family members, which is a point of difference in his approach.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (FRACS) as well as a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS), and originally completed surgical training in Sydney, Australia. He then spent nearly 2 years in the UK and Europe further specialising in advanced ear, hearing, cochlear implantation and acoustic neuroma surgery before returning to Sydney.

His practice is based in Sydney’s north shore, with rooms at Crows Nest (North Sydney), and Lindfield. He regularly operates at North Shore Private Hospital, Macquarie University Hospital and Chatswood Private Hospital. He is also one of the principal surgeons of Next Sense Audiology - Cochlear Implant Assessment Centre and performs one of the highest number of cochlear implants per year of surgeons in Sydney.

As an avid educator, he is a respected teacher of surgery at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital for the University of Sydney, where he mentors surgical specialist trainees, fellows, and medical students. He is the director of the visiting otology (ear surgery) fellowship program at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, where fully qualified ENT surgeons come to gain experience in advanced techniques of ear surgery with Dr Kong and his colleagues. He also runs the longstanding RPA Hospital Otology and Temporal Bone Course in Sydney, a regular hands on course for training new surgeons in the skills of ear surgery, and is regularly a faculty member for courses in Endoscopic Ear Surgery, a minimally invasive ear surgery technique.