Robert Rock, MD
Robert Rock, MD
Family Physician
Montefiore Department of Family and Social Medicine
Dr. Robert Rock is a child of the humanities, passionate about building community, fighting for health justice, and reforming health professional education. Dr. Rock is currently a second-year resident within the Department of Family and Social Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY.
Dr. Rock matriculated into New York University through the Higher Education Opportunities Program (HEOP), which supports traditionally underserved and financially disadvantaged New York State students in entering and graduating from private four-year colleges. As an undergraduate, he co-founded the Opportunity Programs Mentoring Initiative within HEOP which served to re-energize the sense of community among students and alumni. Robert graduated cum laude from New York University (NYU) with a Bachelor of Arts in Art History.
Dr. Rock graduated from the Yale School of Medicine where he co-developed US Health Justice (USHJ), an elective course for medical, nursing, and physician associate students dedicated to social medicine, domestic health equity, and health advocacy. Within USHJ, Robert co-developed a workshop called Making the Invisible Visible (MIV) that was subsequently incorporated into the mandatory curriculum for all Yale medical students. MIV uses art observation to explore topics of bias, identity, and hierarchies of power in patient-provider interactions. Dr. Rock went on to work with graduate students from across the university to develop the multidisciplinary USHJ Collaborative, which works to educate and strengthen the growing health justice community, campus-wide.
As a first-year Family Medicine resident at Montefiore Medical Center, Dr. Rock is currently working with a group of residents and junior faculty of color in revamping the program’s first-year social medicine immersion month curriculum.
Dr. Rock has been named a 2017 Pisacano Scholar and has had a student activism award named after him and a colleague at the Yale School of Medicine.