James R. Learned MD

Dr. Learned is a California native, attending High School in Manhattan Beach at Mira Costa. He graduated with his Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley. He then received his Doctorate of Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. He completed an internship and residency in Orthopaedic surgery at the University Hospitals of Cleveland. His fellowship training took him to Seattle, Washington, at Harborview Medical Center. He remained at Harborview for a second fellowship in Surgical Hip Preservation with Dr. Keith Mayo, treating advanced hip pathology with surgical dislocations and reorientations of the hip socket. He was then recruited by his mentors as a partner in Cleveland prior to joining the faculty at UC Irvine.

Dr. Learned is a fellowship-trained orthopedic trauma surgeon. He specializes in the treatment of new fractures as well as nonunions and malunions. Other areas of interest are fractures of the pelvis and acetabulum, periprosthetic fractures, and complex peri-articular fractures. Dr. Learned also treats patients with Hip Dysplasia, Perthes disease, and other complex hip issues in patients that would like to avoid joint replacement surgery.