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Highland Hospital Welcomes Rebeca Monk, M.D., FACP as New Chief of Medicine

Highland Hospital welcomes Rebeca Denise Monk, M.D., FACP, as the new Chief of Medicine.  Dr. Monk succeeds Robert McCann, M.D., MACP, who chose to step down after serving as the department's leader for more than 20 years, but will continue to serve as the Chief Executive Officer of Accountable Health Partners (AHP) and maintain his medical practice at Highland. Dr. Monk, a University of Rochester Professor of Medicine, has served the health system for almost 30 years, most recently as Chief, URMC Nephrology Division at Highland Hospital and Medical Director of the Highland Hospital Inpatient Dialysis Unit. 

Highland was the site of Dr. Monk’s first position as a nephrologist after she completed her residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Nephrology at the University of Rochester/Strong Memorial Hospital. “I loved Highland since that first year,” she said. She then went on to serve as director and founder of the Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy (CRRT) Program, Strong Memorial Hospital. She has also served as Medical Director, Lake Plains Hemodialysis units, in Medina and Batavia and has extensive experience in the education of residents, fellows, and nurse practitioners. Two years ago she became Chief of Nephrology for Highland. 

Dr. Monk is embracing her new role at Highland. “Providers and staff are wonderful,” she said. “I love what Highland provides for our community. We are known as a small hospital, but we deliver tremendous care in so many different ways and offer most of the services of larger hospitals. I am honored to be part of that.”

Dr. Monk is meeting with providers to learn all she can about the department, and the needs of the providers. “Highland has an extraordinary staff.  They care for patients, serve on committees, do administrative work, and donate their time to support Highland. I am enjoying meeting with providers and learning about what they do. I am a firm believer in teamwork and the Department of Medicine is a very cohesive team.”

She is focused on addressing the immediate needs of the pandemic. “This has been a challenging time for all of us,” she said. “Burnout and staffing needs are at top of mind right now and we need to maintain our resilience. Medicine is challenging in general but this is unprecedented. I want staff to come to me if they are feeling overwhelmed. I am open to suggestions and ideas to ease the burdens wherever possible.”

Dr. Monk resides in Pittsford with her husband, David Trawick, M.D., a pulmonary ICU physician at Strong. The couple has two children, 23 and 20. She is still practicing outpatient nephrology at Highland and serves as medical director of the outpatient dialysis unit in Webster. “I think it’s good for me to still practice and experience what our physicians are experiencing first-hand,” she said.

2/3/2022

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