Dr. Nandita Scott received her medical degree from the University of Ottawa in Canada. She completed internal medicine and cardiology residencies at the Ottawa Hospitals and Heart Institute, where she was also chief internal medicine and chief cardiology resident. She then completed an echocardiography and clinical research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. In 2007, she helped build the MGH Corrigan Women’s Heart Health Program. In 2012, Scott established the MGH Cardiovascular Disease and Pregnancy Program, which has formalized and expanded the collaboration between obstetrics and cardiology to improve care for these at-risk women. She also sought to be more involved in improving heart health activities in her community and ran for a local government position in 2017; she is now the recreation commissioner for the town of Hingham, Massachusetts.

Due to her efforts in improving cardiology care for women, Scott has received several awards, including the American Heart Association Physician of the Year for Cape Cod and Islands, as well as two Partners in Excellence awards; she was also placed on the honor role of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Committee on Women in Medicine. She now serves as the director of the cardiovascular medicine section at Massachusetts General Hospital.