^The  Geriatrics Forum

John C. Scott, MD, graduated from Georgetown University Medical School in 1970, and after two years of Internal Medicine residency at Presbyterian Medical Center in Denver, was drafted and spent three years in the United States Army in Europe as a Brigade Surgeon. Following his military service, Dr. Scott and his wife, Joan, who is also a physician who served in the Army, returned to Denver to complete Internal Medicine residency training at Presbyterian Medical Center.

Upon completion of his residency in 1977, Dr. Scott joined Kaiser Permanente in Denver for what was to become a 25-year career. While at Kaiser, he spent nine years as Chief of Medicine, four years as Physician in Charge of a multi-specialty clinic, and two years as a full-time administrator of the Primary Care Redesign Project, where he created centralized appointments and advice, a hospital service, a nursing home service and full-time clinic physicians, and an open access system. In addition, he served for three years on the Kaiser Board of Directors. Dr. Scott's administrative positions never quite won his heart away from his first priority of seeing patients, and he spent his last six years with Kaiser as a full-time clinician.

During the last twelve years, Dr. Scott became increasingly interested in Geriatric Medicine. In 1991, he developed a group model of care for high-utilizing geriatric patients, which became known as the Cooperative Health Care Clinic (CHCC) Model. In this model, patients are seen in groups for two-and-a-half-hour sessions on a monthly basis. The model received a Kaiser Garfield Grant for Clinical Research, the results of which earned Dr. Scott a second grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The CHCC was established as a national program within the Kaiser system, and ultimately stimulated interest in other modifications of the group-visit concept for management of chronic disease.

Dr. Scott became board-certified in Geriatric Medicine in 1994, and joined the UCD Division of Geriatric Medicine and Center on Aging in July 2002. He now works primarily as a clinician in the UCH Seniors Clinic. He also spends one day a week as a consultant to Kaiser, where he is developing group models of care in specialty departments.

Dr. Scott received the Kaiser National VOHS Award for Quality Innovation in

Clinical Medicine in 1995. He was named the Colorado Permanente Teacher of the Year in 2000, and received the American College of Physicians Community-Based Excellence in Teaching Award in 2001.

The Drs. Scott have three grown children, all in the Denver area, and are gradually adjusting to the aging process by turning in skis for golf clubs, swimming, reading, and hiking.

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