Lise Leveille

Lise Leveille
Full nameLise Annique Leveille
Born (1982-04-14) April 14, 1982 (age 42)
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Height1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Gymnastics career
DisciplineWomen's artistic gymnastics
Country represented Canada
College teamStanford University
ClubFlicka Gymnastics
Medal record
Representing  Canada
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 1999 Winnipeg Team
Gold medal – first place 1999 Winnipeg Balance Beam
Commonwealth Games
Bronze medal – third place 1998 Kuala Lumpur Team

Lise Annique Leveille (born April 14, 1982, in Burnaby, British Columbia) is a French Canadian gymnast and academic who represented Canada at the 2000 Olympic Games.

She began training in gymnastics at the age of three.[1] She competed at the 1998 Commonwealth Games, winning a bronze medal in the team event.[1] The following year, she won two gold medals at the 1999 Pan American Games, as an individual in the balance beam event and in the team event.[1] She participated at the 1999 World Championships, and the 2000 Olympics.[1]

After graduating from Handsworth Secondary School in North Vancouver, she became part of gymnastics team of Stanford University, where she received her BSc degree in Biomechanical engineering and Human biology.[1] She subsequently obtained her MD degree from Queen's University at Kingston. She furthermore has an MHSc degree and an PhD degree in Neuroscience from the University of British Columbia (UBC). In 2014, she completed her residency in orthopaedic surgery at UBC and became a Fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons of Canada (FRCSC).[2] In August 2014 started a fellowship in pediatric orthopaedic surgery at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Dallas, Texas. Since 2015, she is a staff pediatric orthopaedic surgeon at British Columbia Children's Hospital, specializing in knee and athletic injuries.[3] Since 2020, Leveille is appointment as Undergraduate Medical Education Director for Orthopaedics of the University of British Columbia.

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Push, Fail, Push Harder: Olympic Athletes Who Became MDs". Medscape. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
  2. ^ Lise Leveille - website of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of British Columbia
  3. ^ Department of Pediatric Orthopedics - website of the British Columbia Children's Hospital


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