Dr. S. Monica Soni (she/her) is the Chief Medical Officer at Covered California, leading the organization’s Health Equity and Quality Transformation division. She is working to improve the health of Covered California enrollees and the quality and affordability of care for all Californians.

She is a board-certified internal medicine physician with more than a decade of experience working in both inpatient and outpatient settings and continues to see patients. She is an Associate Professor within the UCLA Department of Medicine and the Charles R. Drew University Department of Internal Medicine. Prior to joining Covered California,

Dr. Soni served as Associate Chief Medical Officer within Evolent Health focused on the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective specialty care for the over 16 million supported Medicaid lives across the United States. Dr. Soni also served as the Director of Specialty Care for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, the second-largest municipal health system in the United States. She graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Medical School and completed residency at the University of California, San Francisco.