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Dr. Scott is a clinical infectious diseases physician and Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at Kaiser Permanente Oakland and his infectious diseases fellowship at UCLA, and is board certified in both internal medicine and infectious diseases.
He serves as Medical Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Stanford Health Care – Tri-Valley, where he maintains an active clinical practice with particular expertise in HIV care and prevention, antimicrobial stewardship, and emerging infections. He participates in NIH-funded clinical research including the RECOVER and ACTIV-6 studies of COVID-19 and long COVID, and previously served on Stanford’s COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group.
Dr. Scott has emerged as a national voice for evidence-based vaccine policy. As senior researcher for CIDRAP’s Vaccine Integrity Project, he co-authored a comprehensive systematic review of COVID-19, RSV, and influenza vaccines published in the New England Journal of Medicine. He co-leads a collaborative database cataloguing over 1,700 randomized controlled vaccine trials. His recent work has focused on countering vaccine misinformation and defending evidence-based immunization policy. He has published numerous op-eds in STAT News, CIDRAP, The Conversation, and other outlets, and has given over 100 media interviews with outlets including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, CNN, and NPR. In 2025, he testified before the U.S. Senate on vaccine science.