Dennis Leon DVM CCRT

Dr. Dennis Leon earned his veterinary degree from Cornell University in 2001. Following his veterinary education, Dr. Leon worked in a busy multi-doctor practice in Hayward, California, where he also served as a veterinary consultant to the City of Hayward Animal Services Bureau, Hayward Animal Shelter, Alameda County Animal Control, and San Leandro Animal Shelter.  He moved back to his hometown of New York City in 2004 and worked as a relief veterinarian at several small animal hospitals in Manhattan prior to becoming the medical director at Levittown Animal Hospital in 2005. After a brief stint in Las Vegas in 2015, he relocated to Portland in 2016 and can be found working at several different small animal hospitals throughout the region.

Dr. Leon's professional interests include preventative medicine, anesthesiology, pain management, kidney disease, behavioral medicine and obesity treatment.  In 2014, he completed the requirements for becoming a Certified Canine Rehabilitation Therapist via the Canine Rehabilitation Institute in Coral Springs, Florida. Dr. Leon is one of only four veterinarians in Portland (and the only one in Vancouver) to be certified in physical rehabilitation.  He has served as director of the Southside Community Center Healthy Pet Clinic, which provides wellness care to pets of low-income families in Ithaca, New York. Dr. Leon has also served on the Board of Directors of For Animals in the Hospital (FAITH), an organization developed to defray the costs of medical care for homeless and abandoned animals. Additionally, Dr. Leon works with the Cornell Alumni Admissions Ambassador Network, a group of nearly 6,900 alumni volunteers who assist the Cornell admissions community in recruiting superior undergraduate applicants. In 2012, Dr. Leon began teaching third and fourth year veterinary students when the Cornell University Hospital for Animals selected him as the Robert W. Kirk DVM Practitioner-in-Residence.