Name: Kimberly Monday, MD
Specialty: Neurologist
City: Houston
County Medical Society: Harris CMS
Kimberly Monday, MD, was elected to the TMA Board of Trustees during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. One of her key beliefs: “Physicians are in the best position to determine what health care services people and communities need, who should provide those services, and in what context.” The pandemic was a vivid example of how physicians can uniquely pivot to orchestrate new approaches to patient care.
As a board member, Dr. Monday seeks to “promote policies and programs that contribute to physician success, whether that be in rural private practice or as an urban employed physician.” The Houston neurologist was president of the Harris County Medical Society, where she also served on the Board of Medical Legislation and the executive board. Dr. Monday also served as chair of the Harris Health Care System Board of Trustees, and on the Memorial Hermann Physician Network Board of Directors.
For more than 20 years, Dr. Monday has strived to improve patient care and protect the patient-physician relationship. “Patients are best served when physicians are the captain of the health care team,” she said. She hopes organized medicine can reverse the current tide of “external nonphysician forces – politicians, hospital executives, and insurance payers – toward the recognition and value of physician judgement and leadership. [Physicians] must find our common ground and stay strong on issues that recognize our true North, patient care.”
An active member of TMA since 1997, Dr. Monday co-chairs the Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Task Force. She is also a member of the Educational Scholarship and Loan Committee. She previously served on the TMA Councils on Legislation and Socioeconomics as well as the Prior Authorization Task Force and maintenance-of-certification legislative effort.
“Practicing medicine is an honor, privilege, and the most rewarding of all professions,” Dr. Monday said. “We must secure our role as patient care champion while maintaining laser-focused advocacy to preserve the patient physician relationship.”