Brian P. Monahan

{{Short description|American physician (born 1960)}}

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|serviceyears=1986–present

|rank= Rear Admiral

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Brian Patrick Monahan{{cite web|url=https://www.congress.gov/nomination/103rd-congress/1112|title=PN1112 — Navy|date=February 9, 1994|website=U.S. Congress|accessdate=2018-06-27}} (born 1960) is the Attending Physician of the United States Congress and the United States Supreme Court and holds the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy. Monahan was nominated to the position and rank by United States President Barack Obama in January 2009.{{cite web|url=http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=60410|title=Sailor picked be lead physician on Capitol Hill|date=February 2, 2009|first=Leo|last=Shane III|website=Stars and Stripes}} He previously served as the director of hematology and medical oncology at the National Naval Medical Center. He is a Master of The American College of Physicians and a Member of the Academy of Medicine.

Monahan is an internal medicine and hematology and medical oncology (HMO) doctor and researcher, and from 1987-1989 Monahan served as the battalion surgeon for the 3rd Battalion 6th Marine Regiment of the 2nd Marine Division prior to his training in internal medicine at the National Naval Medical Center.{{Cite web|title=Rear Admiral > United States Navy > BioDisplay|url=https://www.navy.mil/Leadership/Biographies/BioDisplay/Article/2322814/rear-admiral/|access-date=2021-01-08|website=www.navy.mil}} He served as professor and chairman of medicine at The Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, prior to his present assignment. He returned permanently in the spring of 2008 as the assistant attending physician.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}

In May 2003, Monahan was presented with the 18th Annual Clinical Investigation Program Award for his project entitled, A Pilot Study of Oxaliplatin and Capecitibine in Adult Patients with Refractory Solid Tumors. The three-year project tested the effectiveness of an anti-cancer drug on 100 patients with colon cancer.{{Cite web |url=http://www.bethesda.med.navy.mil/visitor/about_us/ratings.aspx |title=National Naval Medical Center - Ratings: CAPT Brian Monahan, MC |access-date=2009-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326042451/http://www.bethesda.med.navy.mil/Visitor/About_Us/Ratings.aspx |archive-date=2009-03-26 |url-status=dead }} With the National Cancer Institute, Monahan served as the principal investigator on clinical trials of novel anti-cancer drugs and discovered the unexpected sudden death associated with the first non-sedating antihistamines like Seldane.( JAMA. 1990;264(21):2788-2790) Monahan was Navy specialty leader for hematology and medical oncology from 2001-2008, chairman of the U. S. Military Cancer Institute Medical Oncology Program and associate director for federal compliance and human subjects protections from 2002-2008. His work with the American Society of Clinical Oncology was instrumental in the creation of the first national in-training competency examination in medical oncology in 2008.

Monahan is also a medical educator at the Uniformed Services University (USU) Department of Medicine where he has been selected Outstanding Teacher of the Year multiple times.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}} He became assistant professor of medicine at USU in 1991 and was promoted to associate professor in 1999 and professor of medicine and pathology in 2006.[http://www.usuhs.mil/med/Monahaninterim.htm F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine: Brian Monahan Bio] He was named the Outstanding Teacher of the Year of The National Cancer Institute in 2000.{{Citation needed|date=September 2023}}

Monahan was praised for his approach to advising members of Congress about Covid-19.{{Cite news |last=Cochrane |first=Emily |date=2020-05-16 |title=Doctor to Congress and Supreme Court Toils to Sidestep Politics Amid Pandemic |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/us/politics/congress-doctor-virus-brian-monahan.html |access-date=2023-09-01 |issn=0362-4331}}