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documents. Scott's father suffered from a heart attack when she was in the third grade. He lived through it and later encouraged Scott to become a cardiothoracic surgeon. Not only was Scott inspired by her father, but her uncle was a thoracic surgeon and
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In 2015 Scott played an integral role in opening a state of the art simulation facility at the Dayton VA. The simulation center is the only mobile simulation center in the VA system. It includes equipment such as mannequins that have all of the vital functions of a real person in order to simulate
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She co-founded two organizations to support other surgeons and encourage students to fight discrimination: the
Society of Black Academic Surgeons, which was founded in 1986, and the Association of Black Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgeons, which was founded in 1999.
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real situations that occur in the hospital. The facility also includes all of the necessary equipment for emergency situations and technology to record the simulations, so they can be played back.
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