LEIGH LEIBEL, PhD(c), MSc, C-IAYT, ACSM/ACS-CET (she/her), is a yoga therapist, journalist, and internationally recognized leader in yoga/yoga therapy and supportive cancer care. She is co-editor and author of the textbook Yoga Therapy Across the Cancer Care Continuum (Handspring Publishing; 1/23) and wrote the oncology chapter for The Foundations, Tools, and Practice of Yoga: A Comprehensive Textbook (Singing Dragon; 6/21).

Since 2015, Leigh has had a clinical practice in Integrative Oncology at NY-Presbyterian/Columbia University's Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center in New York City, where she designs evidence-based yoga/mind-body protocols for people with cancer, survivors, and caregivers to mitigate treatment-induced side effects, enhance quality of life, and improve clinical outcomes. She completed a residential fellowship program in Cancer Prevention and Control at the National Institutes of Health/National Cancer Institute (NIH/NCI).

Leigh serves on the Board of Trustees of the Society for Integrative Oncology, co-chairs the SIO Health Equity Committee, and co-hosts the SIO Integrative Oncology Talk podcast. In 2018, she co-founded the SIO Yoga Special Interest Group (SIO Yoga SIG) and serves as its senior adviser. Formerly an executive producer at CNN, she also hosts and produces SIO Wellness Wednesdays, a weekly program for cancer patients/survivors, caregivers, and clinicians. 

Leigh holds a Master of Science in Yoga Therapy (First Class Distinction) from S-VYASA University in Bengaluru, India, where she is currently pursuing a doctorate in Yoga. Her master's thesis received two awards for her research on yoga and pain management in aromatase inhibitor-induced arthralgia in estrogen positive breast cancer. Her research abstract was published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology (JCO) Supplement to the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2018 Annual Meeting.

In 2018, she was invited by the Union of International Cancer Control to chair the Yoga and Cancer Symposium at the World Cancer Congress held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. A few weeks later she gave the Keynote at the Cancer Survivorship Conference at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York. She is a 2020 TedMed scholar and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of Cancer Health Magazine.

Find her @leighleibel and http://www.leighleibel.com.