Zachary C Lum, D.O.
Chief of Community Orthopaedics; Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery
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Specialties
Orthopaedic Surgery - Adult Reconstruction
Orthopaedic Surgery
Department
Locations and Contact
UC Davis Medical Group - Elk Grove
UC Davis Medical Group - Elk Grove Specialty Care
9390 Bighorn Blvd.
Elk Grove, CA 95758
Phone: 916-683-3955
Lawrence J. Ellison Ambulatory Care Center
Orthopaedic Surgery Clinic
4860 Y Street
Sacramento, CA 95817
Clinic Phone: 916-734-2700
Clinic Fax: 916-734-7137
Philosophy of Care
I believe in a patient-centered holistic approach to musculoskeletal medicine. I discuss the current evidence regarding the patient's condition, treatment options, expected outcomes, their surrounding ongoing life events, and to help them make a patient-centric overall decision regarding their musculoskeletal health. I care and treat every patient as if they are my own family members.
Clinical Interests
Dr. Lum is a fellowship-trained, board certified orthopaedic surgeon who cares for patients with various musculoskeletal conditions. He is trained to manage sports medicine injuries, fractures, and conditions of the upper extremity. He has specialized expertise in hip and knee reconstruction and revision arthroplasty, and is trained in computer navigated and robotic hip and knee replacement.
Research/Academic Interests
Dr. Lum's research focuses on several areas of interest. He is committed to continuing the development of human kinematics, specifically in both the knee and the spinopelvic regions and he is forward thinking in how to treat hip & knee periprosthetic joint infections by reducing the number of patient operations using a single stage, single operation technique. Most importantly, Dr. Lum is committed to health equity, diversity and inclusivity and is working to improve the lives and access of marginalized patients with social determinants of health.
Division
Community Orthopaedics
Center/Program Affiliation
Undergraduate School
B.S., University of California Irvine, Irvine CA, 2005
Medical School
D.O., Touro University, Henderson NV, 2012
Internship
Orthopaedic Surgery, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit MI, 2012-2013
Residency
Orthopaedic Surgery, Valley Consortium for Medical Education, Modesto CA, 2013-2017
Fellowship
Adult Joint Reconstruction, UC Davis Medical Center, Sacramento CA, 2017-2018
Osteopathic Distinction Award. A Comparison of NASA Task Load Index in Primary and Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty. AOAO Meeting October 2022. Chicago, IL.,
Best Overall Paper. Aseptic Loosening in Single Stage Revision Arthroplasty for Periprosthetic Joint Infection. Orthopaedic Summit Meeting December 2021. Las Vegas, NV.,
WOA Young Investigator Award. Female Gender and Longer Spinal Fusions Significantly Increase Risk of Subsequent Total Hip Arthroplasty. Western Orthopaedic Association Meeting 2019. Monterey, CA.,
Osteopathic Distinction Award for Research. Intravenous Tranexamic Acid versus Topical Aminocaproic Acid: Which Method has the Least Blood Loss and Transfusion Rates? AOAO Meeting 2018. Atlanta, GA.,
Lum ZC. Can Artificial Intelligence Pass the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery Examination? Orthopaedic Residents Versus ChatGPT. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2023 May 23. PMID: 37220190
Peddada KV, Delman CM, Holland CT, Meehan JP, Lum ZC. Tantalum Cementless Versus Cemented Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Meta-analysis of Level 1 Studies. J Am Acad Orthop Surg Glob Res Rev. 2023 Apr 7;7(4):e22.00219. PMID: 37027225
Peddada KV, Welcome BM, Parker MC, Delman CM, Holland CT, Giordani M, Meehan JP, Lum ZC. Survivorship and Etiologies of Failure in Single-stage Revision Arthroplasty for Periprosthetic Joint Infection: A Meta-analysis. J Am Acad Orthop Surg Glob Res Rev. 2023 May 11;7(5):e22.00218. PMID: 37167581
Lum ZC, Holland CT, Meehan JP. Systematic Review of Single Stage Revision for Prosthetic Joint Infection. World J Orthop. 2020 Dec 18;11(12):559-572. PMID: 33362992
Lum ZC, Meehan JP, Wegner AM. Spinopelvic Alignment Terminology is Not the Same! Hip Int. 2020 Nov;30(6):658-661. PMID: 32574089
Lum ZC, Giordani M, Meehan JP. Total Hip Instability and the Spinopelvic Link. Curr Rev Musculoskelet Med. 2020 Aug; 13(4): 425–434. PMID: 32524531
Lum ZC, Saiz AM, Pereira GC, Meehan JP. Patella Baja in Total Knee Arthroplasty. J Am Acad Orthop Surg. 2020 Jan 10. PMID: 31934927
Lum ZC, Klineberg EO, Danielsen B, Giordani M, Meehan JP. Female Gender and Longer Spinal Fusions Significantly Increase Risk of Subsequent Total Hip Arthroplasty. J Bone Joint Surg Am. 2019 Apr 17;101(8):675-681. PMID: 30994584
Lum ZC, Coury JG, Cohen JL, Dorr LD. The Current Knowledge of Spinopelvic Mobility. J Arthroplasty. 2018 Jan;33(1):291-296. PMID: 28939031
Lum ZC, Lombardi AV, Morris M, Hurst J, Berend, KR. Early outcomes of twin-peg mobile-bearing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty compared with primary total knee arthroplasty. Bone Joint J. 2016 Oct;98-B(10 Supple B):28-33. PMID: 27694513