Maria Botez, M.D., a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, has completed a residency at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital South Shore and State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Hospital in New York, New York in 2005. She earned her medical degree from the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, Romania, where she also completed a residency in anesthesiology at the Floreasca Hospital in 1998. Dr. Botez brings decades of clinical experience in both hospital and primary care settings to Conviva De Leon. She has established a private practice in El Paso, Texas, that grew to 3,500 patients, worked as a hospitalist at Memorial Hospital in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and served on the Executive Committee of the Memorial Hospital of Texas County in Guymon, Oklahoma. Dr. Botez enjoys painting, cooking, traveling, and sports.