Monica Fudala, MD, FAAFP

Dr. Monica Fudala is a family medicine physician practicing direct primary care at ImagineMD in Chicago. She spent years working across a range of healthcare models before choosing direct primary care, drawn to practicing medicine the way she believes it's meant to work.

Her background includes time as an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University and as core faculty for the University of Chicago family medicine residency, work that shaped her interest in evidence-based medicine and teaching at all levels. She has also served as Director of Inpatient Family Medicine, managing complex hospital cases, and as medical director for an outpatient value-based healthcare organization, which gave her firsthand insight into how preventive care lowers costs and leads to healthier patients. She treats conditions like diabetes, hypertension, and heart failure, with particular interest in nutrition counseling and weight loss, and she holds that patients know their bodies best, so listening well comes first.

Fluent in Polish and conversational in French, she's also an avid runner and yogi, and she makes time for ballroom dancing with her husband and their two boys.