Lise Leveille
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| Full name | Lise Annique Leveille | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Country represented |  Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | April 14, 1982 Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Women's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Flicka Gymnastics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| College team | Stanford University | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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, one 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, in the team event and all five individual events.[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
[edit]- ^ a b c d e "Push, Fail, Push Harder: Olympic Athletes Who Became MDs". Medscape. Retrieved 2024-07-20.
- ^ Lise Leveille - website of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of British Columbia
- ^ Department of Pediatric Orthopedics - website of the British Columbia Children's Hospital
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