Dennis Leon, DVM

Dennis Leon, voted Best Veterinarian in 2012, 2013 & 2014 by the readers of Long Island Press, earned his veterinary degree from Cornell University in 2001. Following his veterinary education, Dr. Leon worked in a multi-doctor practice in Hayward, CA, 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 part-time in a handful of small animal hospitals in Manhattan before moving to Levittown in 2005.

Dr. Leon's professional interests include preventative medicine, anesthesiology, pain management, kidney disease and obesity treatment. 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, NY. 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 is a frequent guest lecturer for the Nassau County BOCES Veterinary Science course, and he 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. He shares his home with Krieger, a goofy Belgian Malinois. Learn more by visting and Liking his Facebook Page.