Professor Scott is a Professor in the Department of Critical Care, School of Medicine, University of Melbourne, and a senior cardiac anaesthetist in the Department of Anaesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne. He is also chair of the Victorian Perioperative Consultative Council. He is a past president of ANZCA and has had many other roles including as a member and chair of the ANZCA Safety and Quality Committee. He is an active researcher into perioperative outcomes, especially the neurocognitive effects of anaesthesia and surgery.