Sports, Spine, & Rehab Physician
Head Team Physician - Erie Rugby Football Club
Head Team Physician - Erie Commodores
Team Physcian - Allegheny College
Team Physician - Corry High School
Team Physician - USA Wrestling He is a team physician for USA Wrestling, Allegheny College and Corry High School. Dr. Susmarski over the years has provided care to a wide range of athletes in a variety of sports encompassing athletes from high school, college, professional, military, Olympic, Paralympic, and Special Olympics levels of competition. He specializes in diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound, ultrasound and fluoroscopic guided procedures, and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) treatments. He arrived in Erie, Pa., after serving as the head team physician at Loras College and the Dubuque Fighting Saints, as well as the team physician for Dubuque County high schools, Dubuque Rugby Club, Dubuque Miners, Dubuque RTC, and Clarke University. Prior to that he served as a team physician and department head of the Brigade Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Department at the United States Naval Academy (USNA) in Annapolis, Md. His additional duties included serving as the principal investigator at USNA for the Concussion Assessment, Research, and Education (CARE) Consortium and medical director for the USNA Concussion Center of Excellence. His decorated Naval career includes over 15 years of United States Navy service to our country. Dr. Susmarski’s academic pursuits include work on multiple book chapters, peer reviewed manuscripts, grants, and presentations including award winning research. His academic work includes over 40 peer reviewed publications in some of the most distinguished journals worldwide, including the British Journal of Sports Medicine, American Journal of Sports Medicine, Journal of Athletic Training, Journal of Neurotrauma, Sports Medicine, and the European Journal of Sport Science. The publications include research topics on sports related concussion, Naval Special Warfare, musculoskeletal injuries, adaptive sports medicine, and ultra-endurance races. He additionally has served on multiple regional and national committees, as a peer reviewer of several prominent medical journals, and as a member of numerous professional organizations. Dr. Susmarski currently serves as one of the inaugural board members on the Iowa Sports Medicine Advisory Committee (SMAC) in which he has been instrumental in the institution of health and safety measures for Iowa’s student athletes statewide. He additionally currently serves as one of the international delegates for the American College of Sports Medicine’s Exercise Is Medicine initiative that strives to make physical activity assessment and promotion a standard in clinical care worldwide. Dr. Susmarski is a sought-after speaker in sports medicine and is a frequent invited faculty member providing over 140 lectures over his career at national, regional and local conferences and universities to include but not limited to American College of Sports Medicine, American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Athletic Trainers in the Physician Practice Society, Michigan State University, University of Pittsburgh, United States Naval Academy, Gannon University, Clarke University, Loras College, and the University of Dubuque. Dr. Susmarski’s awards include being honored with Gannon University’s Distinguished Young Alumnus Award in 2016, as well as being named one of the Top Physicians Under 40 in Pennsylvania by the Pennsylvania Medical Society in 2018 and selected as a Fellow by the American College of Sports Medicine in 2022, which recognizes clinicians and scientists throughout the world who have achieved professional excellence and service to the field of the sports medicine.
