Robin Schoenthaler is a physician-writer. She did her undergraduate work at UC Berkeley, medical school at UCLA, residency in radiation oncology at UC San Francisco, and fellowship in charged particles at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. 

Board certified in radiation oncology, she served as a radiation oncologist at Massachusetts General Hospital for almost three decades as well as an Instructor in Clinical Medicine at Harvard Medical School prior to recently stepping away from her clinical work. She continues to act as the Director of Medical Education at Emerson Hospital and works with the Massachusetts Medical Society in Continuing Medical Education for physicians as a site surveyor. Prior to that was involved with medical school admissions at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard Medical School Initiative on the Arts and Humanities. She is now a Physician Case Manager in the Expert Medical Opinion division at Teladoc Health (legacy Advance Medical) assisting oncology patients obtain virtual expert opinions. 

She is also an award-winning essayist, storyteller, and speaker. She has had articles published in diverse media including the Boston Globe, Business Insider, the New England Journal of Medicine, Readers’ Digest, and many others. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and she is a multi-year winner of the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Creative Writing Exhibition. She has appeared in numerous story-telling exhibitions and is the winner of the Boston Moth Grand Slam Championship and is a popular speaker on multiple subjects including Covid, cancer, and writing. She has recently become a well-known “Covid-translator,” writing weekly essays on Covid with a world-wide social media following.