Rosalyn Scott

She helped there on Saturday mornings by cleaning dental instruments, editing information on charts, and organizing patient documents.

[3] Scott attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, for her undergraduate education, and earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1970.

[3] She entered New York University School of Medicine, and graduated in 1974, despite being subject to the sexism and racism in the medical field during that time.

[1] Following later graduate studies, in 1994, Dr. Scott received a Masters of Science in Health Administration from the University of Colorado College of Business.

[4] In 1981, after Scott completed her postgraduate education, she was appointed as an assistant professor of surgery at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston.

[1] She worked in Houston until 1983, when she was appointed as assistant professor of surgery at UCLA and the Charles R. Drew School of Medicine and Science.

While working at these locations, she focused on research for occupational stress within surgical residents and the health disparities in cardiovascular and lung cancer care.