Annetty Soto, DMD

Dr. Annetty Soto earned her dental degree at the only public and first dental school in the Dominican Republic, Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo. She worked in private practice for a year before moving to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to complete certificates in Restorative and Esthetics in Dentistry programs at Asociacion Odontologica Argentina and Universidad San Salvador. Then, Dr. Soto continued her training at Boston Medical Center and Boston University as a full-time, two-year fellow in Geriatric Dental Medicine, teaching and training pre-doctoral dental and medical students in geriatric care for homebound and institutionalized patients. Part of her training at BMC/BU on the clinician-educators track included participation in the Harvard Macy Program for Post-Graduate Trainees: Future Academic Clinician-Educators, where she currently remains as courtesy faculty every year since 2017.

In 2015, Dr. Soto was appointed by the Community health center of Cape Cod as one of the senior dentists in charge of special needs patients and community outreach in the surrounding towns. In pursuit of her academic dedication, Dr. Soto accepted a position as Clinical assistant professor and Team leader at the University of Florida College of Dentistry in 2017, working intensively providing clinical instruction in the comprehensive care clinics, promoting the integration of evidence-based dentistry within dental education, curriculum development, and conducting research based on clinical aging issues. At the national level, Dr. Soto is the past chair of the American Dental Education Association (ADEA) section on Gerontology and Geriatrics Education from 2017-2021, a board member of the Consortium for Oral Health Research and Informatics (COHRI), and a member of the Special Care Dentistry Association (SCDA). In September 2022, Dr. Soto became an associate clinical professor at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio as the director of the Geriatrics clinic and holder of the Castella Distinguished Professor in Geriodontology in the department of Comprehensive Dentistry.