MONIQUE BUTLER, M.D.
Vice President, Medical Affairs
Sinai-Grace Hospital
A LONG LIFE PASSION FULLFILLED
By: Damon Autry
When most 2nd graders were having difficulty figuring out which cartoon to watch, Monique Butler was busy dissecting star fish, guinea pigs and earth worms in science class. It was her deep-seated interest in biology that fueled this activity—an activity that would have presumably mortified perhaps every one of her classmates. Butler would even play doctor with her two sisters as a way of expressing her life’s desire, even at such a young age. “I knew I wanted to be a physician,” Butler says. “I had such a love for science.”
Butler grew up in Inkster in a home full of love, high expectations and encouragement. Her parents wanted Butler and her two sisters to have better lives than they did, and her mother and father discussed it with them regularly. “My dad really believed in that because that’s how he was raised. My mom’s consistent motto was you can do all things through Christ who strengthens us.”
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