Vice President, Brenner Children's

Marty B. Scott, MD, serves as Wake Forest Baptist Health's vice president in charge of Brenner Children’s Hospital. Dr. Scott also has responsibilities on the quality team of the health care system at WFBH, and has a joint faculty appointment as a pediatric intensivist within the departments of pediatrics and anesthesiology.

Dr. Scott is board certified in pediatrics and pediatric critical care and, prior to coming to Brenner Children’s Hospital, served as vice president at Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah, Georgia. At Memorial, he also had clinical responsibilities in the pediatric intensive care unit and sedation service. Earlier in his career he held several positions at Backus Children’s Hospital in Savannah, Georgia, along with administrative and clinical positions at Coventry Healthcare and Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Dr. Scott has experience in physician practice management, managed care and fund raising and was president and managing partner of a pediatric critical care practice in Charlotte for 10 years. He also founded a company that provided after-hours primary care triage services for doctors in North and South Carolina, Maryland and Alabama.

Dr. Scott received his medical degree from the University of Louisville School of Medicine in 1982 and a master’s degree in business from the University of North Carolina Charlotte in 2001. He completed a pediatric critical care fellowship at the University of Miami and is certified as a patient safety officer. 

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