Titles:
Clinical Professor

Contact:
Email: scottv@upmc.edu

Degrees:

Administrative Title

• 1998 – 2005 – Medical Director & Chief of Anesthesiology & CCM Univ of Pitt Collaboration with Istituto Mediterraneo per I Trapianti e Terapie ad Alta Specializzazione in Palermo, Italy
  
  
• December 2005 – Present – Univ of Pitt, Clinical Professor, Anesthesiology
  
  
• October 2007 – Present – Univ of Pitt, Visiting Clinical Professor, CCM

Personal Statement:
Dr. Scott was born in Jamaica, WI. He received BSc and MD degrees at SUNY Stony Brook and Health Science Center in 1978 and 1982, respectively. He completed internal medicine and anesthesiology residencies and is certified in both. He rounded off his medical training with CCM and Liver Transplantation fellowships during 1988-1991 and is also certified in the subspecialty of CCM. During academic year, 1986-87, Dr. Scott served as associate deputy director of the Adult Emergency Services at Kings County. He began his academic career as an anesthesiologist at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in 1991.

Dr. Scott was recruited to assist with the establishment of Instituto mediterraneo per i trapianti e le terapi ad alta speciallizzazione, (IsMeTT) in 1999, a joint agreement between UPMC and the Italian region of Sicily to modernize the health care facilities there. The new facility would provide a center of excellence, especially in the field of liver transplantation. He established a protocol to assist with developing the Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine services.

Through efforts of UPMC specialists such as anesthesia, critical care and surgical physicians, hepatologists, gastroenterologists, radiologists, cardiologists, nephrologists and infectious disease, IsMeTT has helped develop the careers of many local physicians and given nurses and other allied healthcare professionals the opportunity to excel. Most important, it has benefited the local population, which has suffered long from chronic diseases compounded by less than adequate healthcare.

This liaison between UPMC and Sicily has done much to promote goodwill and understanding between the professionals concerned and to provide a medical center of excellence in a very beautiful part of the world.