«Preventive medicine is of central importance to me. Through my work in general medicine and neurology, I have witnessed first-hand how many conditions are only treated once irreversible damage has already occurred. This is precisely where proactive medicine offers the opportunity to intervene early — through targeted medical history, screening examinations, and lifestyle interventions — before a manifest disease develops.

In neurology, I became particularly aware of how severe the consequences of undetected or untreated risk factors can be — for example in strokes, neurodegenerative diseases, or vascular conditions of the nervous system. Identifying risk profiles, genetic predispositions, and early clinical or subclinical signs plays a crucial role — not only in diagnosing diseases earlier, but ideally in preventing them altogether.»

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Additional Qualifications

2025: Advanced Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS Level 2), London

2024: Certificate of Competence in Practice Laboratory KHM

2023: ALS – Advanced Life Support

2023: Focused Acute Medical Ultrasound (FAMUS/POCUS Level 1), London

2021: Specialist Examination SGAIM

Publications

Rebecca Monkman et al. Sweet syndrome with peripheral neuropathy in a patient with metastatic clear cell renal cell carcinoma. BMJ Case Reports 2024 Apr 29;17(4)

Kenneth Keigh, Dominique Twelves, Rebecca Monkman, H.Y. Chan. Inaccurate coding of complex breast surgery has significant implications for finances.  European Journal of Surgical Oncology (EJSO) 2013;39(11).

Active Memberships

• Foedaratio Medicorum Helveticorum (FMH)

• Swiss Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (SGUM)

• Medical Association of the Canton of Zurich (AGZ)

• Association of Swiss Resident and Senior Physicians Zurich (VSAO)

• British Medical Journal (BMJ)