Mita Lovalekar is an associate professor of Sports Medicine and Nutrition. She is trained as a physician, and has doctoral and master’s degrees in Epidemiology. She is an associate-investigator with the Department of Defense and Neuromuscular Research Laboratory research projects, and is involved with study design, data processing, analysis, and interpretation. Lovalekar's research interests include injury epidemiology and surveillance, injury prevention, and chronic disease epidemiology.