Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Angela Scott, M.D., Ph.D., graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston through a dual degree program, with an MD as well as a Ph.D. in the Medical Humanities. She completed General Pediatrics residency training at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She stayed in North Carolina for several years after residency and worked as a general pediatrician in practice, before entering the UAMS developmental-pediatric fellowship program in 2013. She stayed on as faculty when she graduated and is currently an Assistant Professor, jointly appointed in the Departments of Pediatrics and of Medical Humanities & Bioethics.
Her clinical work is within the James L. Dennis Developmental Center, and she also serves as the medical director for Kids First, an early intervention day treatment program with 11 sites across the state. She is course director for Practice of Medicine I, a longitudinal required clinical skills course for UAMS first-year medical students and teaches several senior electives including Leadership in Clinical Education, Literature & Medicine, and Art & Medicine.