Karen A. Monger, MSN, NP

I have been a registered nurse specializing in many different aspects of womens health care for more than 25 years. After many years of enjoying the connections made with patients, I decided to pursue my degree as a womens health nurse practitioner, which I obtained in 2010, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I consider it a privilege to partner with my patients, and to create a caring and safe environment for them to feel comfortable discussing their most personal concerns. I provide care and education for individuals seeking routine gynecological and prenatal care, contraceptive management, ovarian cysts, abnormal uterine bleeding, menopause management, and evaluation of pelvic pain. My hobbies include Pilates, yoga, gardening, and spending time with my husband, two children and Labrador Retriever.

I initially started in medicine as a paramedic in 2004 and then decided to further pursue my education and became a registered nurse. I served inthe U.S. Army as a flight nurse and spent most of my military career traveling the world and working in some of the best trauma facilities in the world. I left active duty and joined UNC Rex Hospital in 2013 as a RN in the medical surgical intensive care unit (MSICU) and graduated from nurse practitioner school at Duke in 2017. I joined the intensive critical unit (ICU) team and had the pleasure of working alongside some of the best physicians in this field. In 2023, I left the ICU to work with Rex Hospital Pulmonary as a provider in the outpatient clinic. Outside of work, I enjoy my wife and two sons and my primary passion for myself is racing triathlons.

I am a urologist who specializes in taking care of patients with genitourinary cancers and runs a translational research lab. With the various treatment options available for patients with urologic cancers, I enjoy working with patients to identify the treatment choice that optimizes both their cancer outcome and personal goals. My research focuses on using genomic analysis of bladder and kidney tumors to learn more about alterations in the tumor and surrounding cells to improve treatment decisions and patient outcomes.