Bruce A. Scott, MD
Bruce A. Scott, MD is the 179th president of the American Medical Association and the first otolaryngologist to serve as president. Concurrently he continues as a member of the AMA Board of Trustees, now for his 10th consecutive year.
Dr. Scott has been a leader in medicine throughout his career— previously serving as the president of the AMA Foundation, president of his county and state medical associations and on the boards of the Greater Louisville Medical Society and the Kentucky Medical Association for over 20 years.
In addition to his work within organized medicine, Dr. Scott is a past member of the board of directors for Health2047, the AMA’s Silicon Valley-based innovation subsidiary. He is the president of his six-physician private practice group, medical director of a multispecialty ambulatory surgery center and holds a clinical appointment at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.
A graduate of Vanderbilt University, Dr. Scott completed his medical education and otolaryngology residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, and a fellowship with Russ Kridel in Houston.
Earl H. Harley, MD, FAAP, FACS
Earl H. Harley, MD, FAAP, FACS was born in Jacksonville, Florida and was raised in Detroit, Michigan. Dr. Harley attended the public school system in Detroit, graduating from the former Eastern High School. He eventually enrolled in Delaware State University, graduating with a degree in chemistry. He attended medical school at Howard University. After medical school he went on active duty and served a full career as a doctor from a period which spanned the Vietnam War to the first Persian Gulf War. Dr. Harley’s Navy career included two tours as a Naval Fight Surgeon in addition to his position as an Otolaryngologist. Since retiring from the Navy, he has served on the faculty of Georgetown University.
Dr. Harley’s professional training includes an initial residency in pediatrics and later training to become an Otolaryngologist followed by two years of pediatric otolaryngology fellowship in Washington, D.C. and Boston. He went on to become the first pediatric otolaryngologist in the US Navy.
Dr. Harley is a diplomat of the American Board of Otolaryngology and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He’s a member the Triological Society, he also holds memberships in the National Medical Association, The American Society of Pediatric Otolaryngology, The Society for Ear Nose and Throat Advances in Children, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Society of University Otolaryngologist and the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine.
Currently he is a professor of Pediatrics and Otolaryngologist at Georgetown and serve as Chair of the Diversity Committee, an attending Pediatric Otolaryngologist and Chief of Pediatric Otolaryngology. Dr. Harley continues to be very active in undergraduate and graduate medical education and in his 30+years on faculty has taught over a thousand medical students and one hundred otolaryngology residents. In the process he has mentored many residents who have now assumed prominent positions in our specialty.
Dr. Harley is a past elected member of the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery.