Scott is the Chair of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Penn Medicine as well as the Director of the Hand Transplant Program at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Scott heads the Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA) Program and, after a series of tests and challenges, performed one of the first successful hand transplants in America. In 2015, Scott led the team that performed the world’s first bilateral hand transplant in a child. Even with all of this success in his field, Scott explains his method of continually improving himself and his practice on his pursuit of excellence.