Ian Scott is Director of the Internal Medicine Department and the Clinical Services Evaluation Unit at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, and is Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Queensland.

He chairs the Brisbane Cardiac Consortium; is program co-sponsor for the Queensland Health Collaborative for Healthcare Improvement (CHI); chairs the CHI Cardiac Collaborative; is a member of the Heart Failure Advisory Group of the National Institute for Clinical Studies and member of the Medical Quality Board of Queensland Health; and is principal investigator for the West Moreton Cardiovascular Outcomes Program (WESTCOP) in Queensland.

He has research and teaching interests in cardiology, evidence-based medicine, health services evaluation, quality improvement and medical education.