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Total Hip and Knee Replacement Surgeon
Dr. Erik N. Zeegen

Dr. Erik N. Zeegen, a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon, is one of Southern California's leading joint replacement surgeons. His practice is focused on hip and knee replacement surgery, including revising hip and knee replacements that have failed.

Dr. Zeegen has been voted one of the top 70 hip surgeons in the U.S.
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Dr. Zeegen offers the latest medical technologies, including lesser invasive techniques and sophisticated knee pain and hip pain management protocols. This allows his patients the greatest opportunity of returning to an active lifestyle with the least amount of post-operative pain. Dr. Zeegen also offers transfusion-free surgery to those patients who require such service.

A native of Southern California, Dr. Zeegen attended the University of California at Berkeley and at Los Angeles as an undergraduate, and earned his Doctor of Medicine from UCLA in 1996. He also completed his general surgery internship and orthopaedic surgery residency at UCLA. Dr. Zeegen moved to Boston in 2001 to take a fellowship in Orthopaedic Surgical Oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital. He then had a fellowship in Adult Reconstructive Surgery at Boston’s New England Baptist Hospital from 2002-2003 before returning to Los Angeles in late 2003.

Dr. Zeegen is a member of the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society, the California Orthopaedic Association and the American Medical Association. He has authored many academic papers and textbook chapters and has presented talks at national and international meetings on the topic of hip and knee replacement surgery. Dr. Zeegen is also an Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, UCLA School of Medicine.

Dr. Zeegen performs surgery at Saint John's Heath Center in Santa Monica and at Valley Presbyterian Hospital and Providence Tarzana Hospital in the San Fernando Valley. He has two office locations. One in Santa Monica at the Hip and Pelvis Institute, and the other in Tarzana at the Valley Hip & Knee Institute.