Bio
Dr. Jake Scott is a board-certified infectious diseases specialist and Clinical Associate Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases & 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.
His academic work focuses on vaccine science, antimicrobial stewardship, diagnostic stewardship, and respiratory virus infections. He has contributed to reviews of vaccine safety and effectiveness and to multicenter NIH-funded studies, with publications in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, BMJ, and Nature Reviews Microbiology. He is also involved in collaborative efforts to organize and analyze data from randomized trials of vaccines and frequently gives talks on vaccines, infectious diseases, and responsible antibiotic use.
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, contributes to CIDRAP as a writer on infectious diseases topics, and authored the BMJ Best Practice section on HIV-related opportunistic infections.
Outside of work, Dr. Scott enjoys rock climbing, surfing, and spending time with his two children.
