Middlebury College

Dr. Mark Peluso is the Chief Health Officer and College Physician and has served as both the College & Head Team Physician since 2000. 

• 2021 Middlebury Medal (Inaugural winner) 
  • Given on an extraordinary occasion where an individual’s humanitarian actions have profoundly benefited the Middlebury College community his outstanding leadership during the coronavirus pandemic 
• 2003 Open Door Clinic Director’s Award
• 1999 J.P. Hannon M.D. Award for Humanitarian Qualities Demonstrated as a Resident
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society - elected 1996
• 1996 Dittmer & Wright Award for Excellence in Teaching at Boston University Medical Center
• 1996 E.B. Kahn Award for Outstanding Achievement as a Medical Student
• 1995 Arnold-Jefferies Family Medicine Scholarship

• Chief Health Officer & College Physician - Middlebury College (2020-present)
• Director, Health Services, College & Head Team Physician - Middlebury College (2004-2020)
• Medical Director, College & Head Team Physician - Middlebury College (2000-2004)
• Clinical Assistant Professor In Department of Family Medicine - University of Vermont College of Medicine 2008-2016)
• Chief Resident, UCSF Salinas Family Medicine Residency Program -1998-1999

• Sports Medicine Fellowship, Stanford University-San Jose Medical Center - 2000
• Family Practice Residency - University of California San Francisco-Salinas - 1999
• Doctor of Medicine - Boston University School of Medicine - 1996
• Bachelor of Science – Bowdoin College – Biology – 1988

• Board Certified in both Family Medicine and Sports Medicine

• Founding member and chairman of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Medical Aspects in Sport Committee
• Team Physician, 2015 US Lacrosse Women’s National Under-19 Team - 2013-2015
• Vermont Green Mountain Care Board, Primary Care Advisory Group - 2016-2018
• Americans in Motion Advisory Committee, American Academy of Family Physicians 2006 -2014
• Fellow, American Academy of Family Physicians- elected 2006
• Active member in the: 
  • American Medical Society for Sports Medicine
  • American College of Sports Medicine
  • American College Health Association 
  • American Academy of Family Physicians 
  • Female and Male Athlete Triad Coalition

• Stracciolini A, Amar-Dolan L, Howell DR, Alex T, Berkner P, J Sandstrom N, Peluso M, Kurtz M, Mannix R, Meehan WP. Female Sport Participation Effect on Long-Term Health-Related Quality of Life. Clin J Sport Med. 2018 Aug 8
• Meehan WP, Taylor AM, Berkner P, Sandstrom NJ, Peluso M, Kurtz MM, Pascual-Leone A, Mannix R. Division III Collision Sports Are Not Associated with Neurobehavioral Quality of Life. J Neurotrauma. 2015 Jul 20
• Peluso, M, Nutrition and Digestive Health Webinar, American Academy of Family Physicians. Jul 2010
• Peluso M, Henehan M; Hematuria, The 5 Minute Sports Medicine Consult, Lippincott, 2001. 
• Peluso M, Henehan M; Proteinuria, The 5 Minute Sports Medicine Consult, Lippincott, 2001
• Schepsis, A., Zimmer, J., DeSimone, A., Peluso, M.; Biceps Tendon Transfer and Staple Capsulorrhaphy for Recurrent Posterior Instability of the Shoulder, Boston University Medical Center, Department of Orthopedics, 1995