Meet the Expert: Doctor Bio Video Series
Eric Khetia, M.D. is an orthopedic surgeon at Summit Orthopedics in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. His specialties include knee, shoulder, sports medicine, arthroscopy, minimally invasive surgery, total joint replacement.
Meet Eric Khetia, M.D.
Dr. Khetia’s approach: “My goal is to lead an active, healthy life and to allow my patients to do the same. Restoring them to pre-injury levels of functioning and allowing them to pursue the activities they enjoy inspires me.”
Dr. Khetia’s education: Dr. Khetia completed his undergraduate and medical studies at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, Missouri. For his residency, he participated in the Orthopedic Surgery program at the University of Kansas in Wichita, Kansas. He then went on to complete an Arthroscopic Surgery and Sports Medicine fellowship at New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
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From Olympians to pro athletes to kids in youth sports and those that just want to be more active—Summit Orthopedics delivers expert care by fellowship-trained sports medicine physicians. If you are recently injured or concerned about ongoing pain, Summit Orthopedics sports medicine specialists have the expertise to evaluate your discomfort and develop a plan to quickly and safely help you get back to being active.
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Summit has convenient locations across the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, serving Minnesota and western Wisconsin. We have state-of-the-art centers for comprehensive orthopedic care in Eagan, MN, Plymouth, MN, Vadnais Heights, MN, and Woodbury, MN, as well as additional community clinics throughout the metro and southern Minnesota.
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Video Transcription
My name is Dr. Eric Khetia, and I’m at Summit Orthopedics. My specialty is sports medicine and arthroscopic knee and shoulder surgery. Something that a lot of my patients find surprising is, even though I participated in college athletics, a lot of times you give up sports after that time. But I actually love participating in sports more than ever. So I continue to play tennis. It’s funny: my mother and father do yoga. And when they came to visit me a few years ago up here in Minnesota, they said, “You need to start going.” Now that’s one of my passions. My brother, who’s also a surgeon, he was having some low back pain so he started Pilates. And he said, “You need to start doing that. As a surgeon, it’s a job requirement.” So I started doing that. So all these patients come to me and tell me about the sports they play – I usually have tried them or am still playing them. You know it’s funny – I see a lot of kids, and all age groups really, who are convinced that if they cannot play their sport, the world’s going to come to an end. And the funny thing is, when I was at that stage in college, I felt the same way. And when you get some perspective, you realize that’s obviously not the case. But it’s important to them, and I take that very seriously. And my goal is to get them back, and it may take some time. The vast majority of the time, it doesn’t require surgical intervention. But I listen to them because I’ve been there. I understand where they’re coming from.