(left) St. X Graduation, 1979 (above) YPS
delegate to the AMA (right) Tailgating at a
UofL football game
Introducing
Bruce Scott, MD
President, Greater Louisville Medical Society
2014-2015
Ian Scott
M
y dad is probably the hardest working person that I
know, and one of the most successful. He is the president of his private practice group, medical director of
his surgery center, an accomplished speaker, and a member of several boards. He has been extremely involved in organized medicine at the local, state and national levels since his residency, when
he served as Chair of the AMA’s Resident Physician Section. Since
then he has served on the Board of Trustees of both the AMA and
the AMA Foundation, and continues to serve on the boards of the
GLMS and KMA. He firmly believes that physicians working together can affect positive change for both physicians and patients.
schools, and then continued on to college; three went further to
attain master’s degrees and two earned doctoral degrees. This was
not easily accomplished on a single blue collar salary. Everyone
was expected to help pull their own weight. My dad sometimes
worked three jobs at a time (including a 5:00 AM paper route every morning before school). His hard work paid off with his admission to Vanderbilt University (where he met my mom, Christy
at the beginning of his freshman year), and then to the University
of Texas Medical School, where he earned a scholarship giving
him in-state tuition – at the time that was $400 a year – things
have certainly changed.
Dad is the fifth of six children born to Lou and Ethel Scott. Neither of his parents attended college; in fact his dad left high school
at the age of sixteen to help support his family during a difficult
economy; yet, it is obvious that there was a strong emphasis placed
on education in their home. All six children attended private
After graduating from medical school in Galveston, and completing a residency in otolaryngology, he and my mom moved to
Houston, where Dad completed a facial plastic surgery fellowship. It was during their time in Texas that my two older siblings
were born - Preston (23, Notre Dame) and Stephanie (21, Miami
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