Aproteem Choudhury

Director of the Institute’s Greater Houston Healing Collaborative

Aproteem (Apro) Choudhury serves as the Institute’s Director of the Greater Houston Healing Collaborative (GHHC). In this role, Apro is committed to supporting community health by engaging, mobilizing, and uniting disadvantaged communities, clinical populations, and healthcare institutions with mind-body medicine. He regularly leads online and in-person workshops and mind-body skills groups for grief and loss with GHHC partners. Apro shares mind-body medicine with the greater Houston community by partnering with organizations such as the Jung Center, the Rothko Chapel, and Memorial Park Conservancy to curate community-facing contemplative events. He joined the Institute in September 2023. 

Before joining the Institute, Apro helped develop community-driven contemplative care coalitions with Texas Children's Hospital in Uvalde, Texas, and throughout the United States. These coalitions enabled people to activate their capacity to understand themselves, face challenges, and heal trauma. He also helped create the first mind-body interventionist role at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, Texas. Working with the Division of Child/Adolescent Psychiatry, Apro provided mind-body medicine to children facing health challenges and their families. 

Apro served as the Center for Mind-Body Medicine’s (CMBM) Manager of Research and Partnership Development, where he developed and maintained partnerships with organizations that were interested in self-care. Apro remains a member of the CMBM faculty and supervision team and is certified in mind-body medicine. He developed interdisciplinary collaborative projects that supported clinician wellness, researched provider burnout, and remained involved in the education of clinical learners throughout the Texas Medical Center and the Greater Houston community. 

Apro enjoys working at his regenerative micro-farm, which grows medicinal plants and food, biking along the Houston Bayou, and relaxing with his dogs. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in neuroscience from the University of Texas at Dallas and is currently working toward earning his Master of Social Work degree at the University of Houston.