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Research Fellow & Medical Student
Health Design Lab, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University
Rachel Monane, BBA, is a Research Fellow in the Health Design Lab and Medical Student at Sidney Kimmel Medical College (SKMC) at Thomas Jefferson University, bringing 5+ years of experience in clinical research and project management. She is the Clinical Design Co-Lead for Motivity, and is passionate about finding practical, human-centered ways to improve patients’ and providers’ experiences in healthcare.
Rachel earned a bachelor’s in business administration from the University of Miami in 2014. Upon graduation, Rachel joined Unilever's rotational Future Leaders Program in brand management (brand building/brand development) for several years. In her last role she oversaw a product line launch, e-commerce, and brand partnership efforts for the Hellmann’s/Best Foods brand. In making her jump from mayonnaise to medicine, she worked full-time in clinical research at Columbia’s Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health (CBCH), while completing Columbia’s premed postbac program. Rachel focused on the development of iteratively built, iPad-based, screening tools for depression in underserved primary care (Transform DepCare) and post-ACS (iHeart DepCare) populations, ensuring that the finished shared-decision making tool educated, activated, and spoke to the needs of patients. Promoted twice during her three years at CBCH, ultimately as a program manager, Rachel oversaw a suite of Implementation Science programs.
Rachel joined the forming leadership team at the Center for Personalized Health at Northwell Health in Summer 2019 and led efforts for the Women Leaders’ Wellness Program (preventative wellness initiative to provide evidence-based, health optimizing recommendations), Maven (program designed to provide underrepresented scientists tools to address barriers to leadership advancement), and the Northwell Health COVID-19 Research Consortium, until moving to Philadelphia to attend SKMC.
Rachel was selected to the SKMC Student Leadership Forum (longitudinal mentorship program for students demonstrating promise as future leaders) and received the Helen and Gabriel Lavine Award Scholarship for Outstanding Summer Research in 2022.