He received his Bachelors of Science in Biology from the American University in Washington, D.C., graduating Summa Cum Laude. He received his M.D. from the University of Chicago, where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. After completing his internal medicine residency and a chief resident year in the Primary Care Internal Medicine Program at the University of Rochester in New York, Dr. Scott completed a Geriatric Medicine Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and a Masters of Health Science in the Clinical Epidemiology of Aging at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.