Vanessa P. Scott, MD, FAAP

Vanessa Scott, MD, MS, is a board-certified pediatrician who provides primary care for infants, children and young adults up to age 21. She is especially interested in helping with breastfeeding support, nutrition, preventive care and parenting techniques.

As an assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics at UC San Diego School of Medicine, Dr. Scott educates medical students and residents. Her research interests include parental vaccine hesitancy, pediatric vaccine receipt, digital health communication, and technological advances in patient-physician communication.

Dr. Scott completed a general academic fellowship in community health research at Columbia University Medical Center. She did residency training in pediatrics at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York and at UC San Diego School of Medicine. She earned her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and obtained a master's degree in epidemiology from Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health. Dr. Scott is board certified in pediatrics.

She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP), and member of the Society for Pediatric Research and the Academic Pediatric Association.

In her free time, Dr. Scott stays active through tennis, yoga, surfing and running. She also enjoys drawing, photography, cooking with her husband, and playing trains with her son.

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