Aurora Teresa Leon Conde, MD

Aurora Leon, MD was born in Mexico City and was raised in northern Mexico.

She studied Medical School and offered one year of social service to an underserved community, where she was the primary care physician for a community of 2,500 people.

After seeing that health depends on social and family interaction, she studied 2 years of her master degree in Systemic Family Therapy.

In 2009 she came to New York City to continue her career in Internal Medicine at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital with Columbia University.

She spent 5 years in a Federal Qualified Clinic offering service to the underserved population in Connecticut.

She has always been interested in an integrative approach with a belief that food can be the best medicine.

She is a board member of PCRM (Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine).

Dr. Leon is a yoga enthusiast, loves running and she runs ultra marathons with a deep appreciation for life and death, practicing mindfulness.

In 2019 she was part of the Nomads Clinic, a four week medical expedition in Nepal, where doctors hiked to remote regions of the Himalayas to provide compassionate medical care to more than 1,330 nomads.