Dawn C Scantlebury is a consultant cardiologist at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), Barbados, and senior associate lecturer in cardiology, The University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. She obtained her medical degree from the UWI in 1998 and completed residency in Internal Medicine in 2005. She subsequently travelled to the USA, eventually completing fellowships in cardiovascular diseases, advanced echocardiography and interventional cardiology at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, in 2015. Immediately following fellowship, she returned to Barbados to start the percutaneous coronary intervention program at the QEH. She is the medical director of the cardiac rehabilitation program of the Heart and Stoke Foundation of Barbados and a member of its Board of Directors, and a council member of the Caribbean Cardiac Society. Her main interests include quality improvement in acute coronary syndrome management in Barbados, cardiac rehabilitation, and sex and gender differences in cardiovascular disease. She is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American College of Cardiology.