BIO

Robin Soto is a Family Nurse Practitioner with over 25 years of clinical experience. She earned her Master's in Nursing from The Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, where she was both a National Health Service Corps Scholar and a Peace Corps Fellow. Robin has served as a Hepatology Nurse Practitioner at UC San Diego Health Hepatology since 2016.

As an active member of the Eliminate Hep C San Diego County initiative, Robin serves on the Access, Testing, Treatment and Prevention committee, where she helped develop the Recommendations report and Implementation Plan adopted by the San Diego Board of Supervisors. Her excellence has been recognized with the 2019 Mid-Career Hepatology Associates Scholar Award from AASLD and the 2018 Patrons of Nursing Professional Certification Scholarship from UC San Diego Health.

Robin contributes to the UC San Diego Health Interdisciplinary Practice Committee and is an accomplished national speaker, presenting at prestigious events including Digestive Disease Week and The Liver Meeting. In 2022, she was selected as the inaugural speaker for UC San Diego Health APP Grand Rounds.

When not advancing hepatology care, Robin enjoys traveling with friends in search of great wine and food, spending time with her rescue dogs, and exploring San Diego with her husband.

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