Mark Allen, M.D.

Dr. Allen is a double board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist. He completed his medical education and general psychiatry residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, followed by a child psychiatry fellowship at New York-Presbyterian-Columbia & Cornell. Additionally, he spent a post-fellowship year with the Canterbury District Health Board in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Dr. Allen has extensive sport-specific training, including earning the International Olympic Committee’s Diploma in Mental Health in Elite Sport, the FIFA Diploma in Football Medicine, and the ISSP’s official sports psychiatry certification program. He serves as the Chairman of the American Board of Sports & Performance Psychiatry (ABSPP) and is an editorial board member of Sports Psychiatry: The Journal of Sports & Exercise Psychiatry.

In his clinical practice, he works with athletes of all levels, from high school to the Olympics and pros --currently, he acts as the consulting psychiatrist for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball club, and he is the medical director of an athlete-specific eating disorder program (EDCare's Athlete EDGE). Dr. Allen has a specific passion for promoting sports participation as an important (and healthy) component of youth development, and is a contributor to the youth sports mental performance platform, MaxU.