Alicia D. Monroe
American physician
Alicia D. H. Monroe is an American physician and the Provost of the Baylor College of Medicine. Her research considers physician-patient communication and medical education.
Early life and education
Monroe was born in Indianapolis. Her mother was a beautician and her father worked for the United States Postal Service, and neither of her parents attended college. Monroe attended Broad Ripple High School, a public high school in Indiana. She has said that she was inspired by her childhood paediatrician, an African-American woman who mentored her throughout her time at high school. Monroe experienced a lot of premature death in her family, including her grandfathers and uncles. She lost her mother to Hodgkin's Disease and her father to lung cancer. Monroe has said that her mother's original symptoms were dismissed by her physician as being psychosomatic, which motivated Monroe to work on new ways to improve the patient-physician relationship. Monroe earned her bachelor's degree at Brown University in 1973.
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