About

BIOGRAPHY
Scott has more than 28 years of biosafety experience and is currently the Director of Safety and RBL Operations for the Human Vaccine Institute at Duke University.  He provides oversight of a comprehensive safety program for the Institute, which includes the Regional Biocontainment Laboratory, a BSL-3/ABSL-3 facility that is currently registered with the CDC Select Agent Program.  Scott is a voting member of Duke’s Institutional Biosafety Committee and is the Program Manager for the Duke Infectious Disease Response Training (DIDRT) consortium, a federally-funded program through the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences.  Over the past three years, more than 2000 healthcare and clinical laboratory workers have received tailored training through the DIDRT program on safely performing their assigned work duties during infectious disease outbreaks.

Scott has a Bachelor’s of Science in biology from Radford University and a Master’s of Science in environmental sciences and engineering from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  He has been an active member of the American Biological Safety Association (ABSA) since 1996, including past service as a Councilor for the Association.  Scott is a member and Past-President of the Carolinas Biological Safety Association, an affiliate of ABSA.