Dr. Jeremy Loveridge is an internationally trained Specialist Orthopaedic Surgeon, with an interest in hand, wrist and elbow surgery, including microsurgery.

Jeremy was born in Somerset, England and grew up as a country boy in a farming and academic family.  He studied Medicine at University College London Medical School, qualifying with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in 2000.

He completed his Specialist Orthopaedic Training in Bristol, England and was awarded his Fellowship in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2010. This training included working with, and being mentored by internationally respected hand, wrist and elbow surgeons.

He came to Australia in 2011 to undertake further sub-specialty training in hand, wrist and elbow surgery, completing a Hand and Upper Limb Sports Injury Fellowship at the internationally renowned Perth Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Centre, and subsequently completing a year’s Fellowship in Hand and Upper Limb Surgery, including Microsurgery, at the prestigious Brisbane Hand and Upper Limb Research Institute.

Whilst in Brisbane, he was invited to Cairns to set up a hand clinic at the Cairns Hospital in 2013. After working here for 2 years, he initially planned to return to the UK, and was appointed as a Hand Surgeon in Oxford, at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre. Due to his love of Cairns and Far North Queensland, he declined the UK job to continue his hand, wrist and elbow clinic in Cairns.  Dr Loveridge was awarded a Fellowship in Orthopaedic Surgery from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in 2016.

Dr Loveridge has a public appointment at the Cairns Hospital as a Specialist Orthopaedic Surgeon where he runs the hand unit, and actively trains junior surgeons along with teaching medical students.

He has an academic appointment as Associate Professor of Orthopaedics at James Cook University and regularly presents his research nationally and internationally. He has published on hand and wrist surgery, as well as general Orthopaedics and Trauma research. He has written book chapters on ‘The Management of ‘Polytrauma’, and co-authored on ‘The Management of Scapholunate Ligament Injuries of the Wrist’.

Outside of work, he enjoys exploring Far North Queensland with his wife and four children, and riding and racing the local trails on his mountain bike.  

Dr Loveridge consults privately from FNQ Hand Surgery.