Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior

Dr. Jessica Soto received her medical degree at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2017, where she received the Betty Ford Institute SIMS Scholar Award, the Lena Landegger Service Award, and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. She completed her general psychiatry residency at Yale University. During residency, Dr. Soto received the Ira Levine Award, which is awarded to a PGY-2 psychiatry resident who embodies the qualities of clinical excellence, breadth of learning, and devotion to the care of severe psychiatric illness. Dr. Soto was also selected as an APA/APAF Leadership Fellow, was elected as the co-president of the Psychiatry Residents’ Association (PRA), and was a program-wide Chief Resident at Yale. She then completed her Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. She is a member of the Rhode Island Council on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and is an active advocate for issues at the intersection of children's mental health and the law. She is interested in the treatment of Serious Mental Illness, management of agitation and aggression, and ethical dilemmas in psychiatric practice.