In addition to recognition by the Caribbean American Medical and Scientific Association, she received the Order of Barbados Gold Crown of Merit, for her efforts to educate minorities about organ transplant.
[2] Though offered a one-year scholarship to Barnard College, she was concerned about the financial burden of continuing her studies and instead opted to attend school in Brooklyn, where she thrived.
After meeting with Dr. Mark M. Ravitch,[4] one of the pioneers in the use of medical stapling in the US,[5] at the University of Pittsburgh Children's Hospital, she was convinced to study pediatric transplantation.
In 1986, Scantlebury began her fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh (Pitt) School of Medicine, under the direction of Dr. Thomas Starzl and spent the next two years in clinical work.
[7] That same year, she married Dr. Harvey White,[1] received the "Gift of Life Award" from the National Kidney Foundation[8] and began teaching as an assistant professor at Pitt.
[14] Scantlebury accepted an offer from the Christiana Care Health System of Delaware in 2008 to serve as director of their kidney transplant program and the family relocated.