Nathan Scott, MD, majored in Biomedical Engineering at Tufts University. He then went to the University of Pennsylvania to complete a post-baccalaureate program before enrolling at Harvard Medical School for his medical degree.

While at HMS, Nathan began to broaden his interests. For the first two years of medical school, he worked part-time as a biomedical engineer at a firm developing microfluidics and point of care diagnostic devices. When he transitioned to the hospital, he began asking new questions: why are health care systems so inefficient? Why aren’t medical professionals more involved in making decisions that decide how physicians practice medicine? How can we combine the intricacies of how we practice medicine and the complexities of economically efficient medicine to better provide care for our communities, particularly for the underserved? To this end, Nathan enrolled at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he studied health policy and health economics, obtaining a Master’s in Public Policy.

Nathan completed his internship in internal medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital before starting his ophthalmology residency at the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute. He was selected as Chief Resident for his surgical retina fellowship at Bascom Palmer and will now pursue a second fellowship in Ocular Oncology.  Nathan aspires to develop a career that integrates clinical and surgical care with a broader perspective of health quality, equity, and public service. He hopes to identify and work to improve the policies that can bridge current disparities and ameliorate our existing healthcare system. He plans to use the Climate and Health Equity Fellowship to better understand how climate impacts the distribution of, and access to health care.