Bio
Dr. Jake Scott is a board-certified infectious diseases specialist and Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine. He serves as Medical Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program and the Vascular Access Program at Stanford Health Care – Tri-Valley.
Dr. Scott provides inpatient and outpatient care for adults with a wide range of infectious diseases. His clinical interests include HIV care and prevention, antimicrobial stewardship, coccidioidomycosis, multidrug-resistant infections, recurrent urinary tract infections, and vaccines. His practice emphasizes compassionate, evidence-based care for patients from diverse backgrounds.
Dr. Scott is active in vaccine science communication and advocacy. As senior researcher for CIDRAP's Vaccine Integrity Project, he co-authored a comprehensive systematic review of COVID-19, RSV, and influenza vaccines published in the New England Journal of Medicine. He co-leads a collaborative database cataloguing more than 1,700 randomized controlled vaccine trials and has published on vaccine science in STAT News, CIDRAP, The Conversation, and other outlets. He has given over 100 media interviews with outlets including The New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, and NPR, and in 2025 testified before the U.S. Senate on vaccine science. He serves on the Board of Directors of Vaccinate Your Family.
His other academic work focuses on antimicrobial stewardship, diagnostic stewardship, and respiratory virus infections, with publications in JAMA, BMJ, and Nature Reviews Microbiology. He contributes to NIH-funded RECOVER and ACTIV-6 studies of COVID-19 and long COVID, writes monthly for Infectious Diseases Alert, and authored the BMJ Best Practice section on HIV-related opportunistic infections.
Dr. Scott was born and raised in the Bay Area and was inspired to pursue medicine after working as an HIV test counselor in San Francisco. He studied literature and creative writing in college and values the narrative aspect of medicine and the importance of listening carefully to each patient's story. He regularly teaches Stanford residents and students.
Outside of work, Dr. Scott enjoys rock climbing, surfing, and spending time with his two children.
