Margie Scott MD

Margie A. Scott, M.D., was appointed Medical Center Director of Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System (CAVHS), Little Rock, Arkansas, effective May 1, 2016.|As the Medical Center Director, Dr. Scott has direct line responsibility and full accountability for managing all activities in a healthcare delivery system, which includes a two-campus medical center with 505 operating hospital beds, a 154-bed Domiciliary and a 119-bed Community Living Center. CAVHS also manages eight Community Based Outpatient Clinics. She sets policy for the overall budget of the medical center that totals more than $1 Billion and more than 3,900 employees. Dr. Scott graduated from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, and received a Medical Degree in 1988. She completed Anatomic and Clinical Pathology residency; fellowship training in Surgical Pathology; and fellowship training in Molecular Pathology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee. After serving as faculty and clinical laboratory director at Vanderbilt for five years, she accepted a full-time appointment at CAVHS where she has served as Laboratory Director, Assistant Chief of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Service, Chief of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Service, Deputy Chief of Staff, Chief of Staff, Interim Medical Center Director, and VISN 16 Interim Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Scott is a tenured Professor of Pathology at University of Arkansas Medical Sciences.