Scott has been working in the field of connectivity, telemedicine, and cold chain supply in off-grid regions of Africa and Haiti since 2011. In that year, he initiated telemedicine live consults from the Maasai Mara region of Kenya and in 2011 was a presenter on telemedicine and satellite communications to the First International Congress on Pathogens at the Human-Animal Interface in Addis Ababa (he also spoke at their 2017 Congress in Qatar on solar powered cold chain supply for vaccines, bio-samples, and food security). Scott conducted the first, real-time ultra sound from the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Gabon to an OBGYN at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston in 2012. In 2014, Scott was a telemedicine presenter for the First Pan-African Doctors and Healthcare Workers Conference in Addis Ababa. Scott also connected the attendees for the 2013 WEM Conference in Boston to the orphanage in Haiti for a song presentation to everyone, if you remember, and also spoke on telemedicine in remote locations. His participation in the first, international telemedicine-based pilot for the remote screening of potential Ebola patients was published in the first edition of Telemedicine Magazine in 2914, Most recently, he has been advancing telemedicine and cold chain supply with the use of revolutionary Phase Change Materials in East Africa and in Haiti as a Board member of the Foundation for International Development Assistance. Scott holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree with major in Biology from the University of Mount Union and a Masters of Divinity from Eden Theological Seminary.

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