Mark E. Lavallee, M.D., C.S.C.S., F.A.C.S.M., received both his undergraduate and medical school degrees from Pennsylvania State University.  After completing a family practice residency at York Hospital in York, PA, and a sports medicine fellowship at the Crozer-Keystone Health System in Philadelphia, PA, he acquired the C.A.Q. in sports medicine and his certification as Strength and condition Specialist from the NSCA. He was recruited by the Memorial Family Practice Residency to start the South Bend Sports Medicine Fellowship, where he currently acts as its co-director. Dr. Lavallee is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and has a faculty appointment as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at Indiana University College of Medicine. Locally, Dr. Lavallee is the team physician for area high school athletic programs, head team physician for Indiana University South Bend, medical director of the Sunburst Race (1999-Present), and is the team physician for University of Notre Dame men’s soccer team. Dr. Lavallee was lead author for the AFP Monograph Series on Fractures and Dislocations, Vol. 1 & 2 (2002). On a national and international level, Dr. Lavallee has been the medical director for the World Masters Weightlifting championships in Glascow, Scotland (1999), Orlando, Florida (2000), Kefalonia, Greece (2001), the World Masters Games in Melbourne, Australia (2002) Savannah,GA (2003), Vienna, Austria (2004), World Masters Games in Edmonton, Alberta (2005) and most recently Bordeaux, France, (2006).  As a team physician and sports medicine board member for USA Weightlifting, he has covered numerous national and international events for our national Junior and Senior teams, including the 2003 World Weightlifting Championships (Vancouver,B.C.), the Olympic Team trials prior to the Sydney 2000 and 2004 Athens Olympic Summer Games, and our World Junior Women’s Team Champions in Thessaloniki, Greece (2001).  Dr. Lavallee also has served as medical director for US Fencing National Championship (2000), Jr/Cadet World Championship (2000), Junior National Championships (2006 US Boxing). He is an active member of AMSSM board member and chairman of the fellowship committee.

Dr. Lavallee has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, classical type.  He joined the Ehlers Danlos National Foundation as one of its early members in 1987. He has enjoyed speaking at many of the national conferences he has attended. Dr. Lavallee served on the EDNF’s board of directors from 2000-2005, where he created the Professional Advisory Network (nee Professional Advisory Council) He currently serves on the Ehlers-Danlos National Foundation’s Professional Advisory Network and is a co-investigator with the NIH on a study looking at  Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Marfan’s Syndrome with Nazli McDonnell, MD, PhD.