With an attitude of 100% Care and 80% Effort , she has a four-day work week at UNC that includes at least four jobs. As a Practicing Clinician, she sees patients for motility disorders such as constipation and fecal incontinence, and writes them prescriptions. As Medical Director, she leads the motility lab for anal rectal monometry.

As a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, she teaches medical students, instructs GI fellows, and meets with Visting Fellows and Scholars. Some of her visiting scholars are American Motility Society Fellows – a program that places GI trainees from all of the United States in the care of Dr. Scarlett (and other faculty from the UNC Center for Functional GI & Motility Disorders) for a month in concentrated training and motility and endoscopy skills. Finally, being involved as a Researcher in two very different areas helps broaden her well-roundedness as a clinician and instructor: collaboration with Dr. William Whitehead and Dr. Steve Heyman in biofeedback, and various investigations in pharmacology.

This “Jane of All Trades” resides in Hillsborough with her opthomologist husband and as a full-time mom of two active pre-teen boys. Each day, Dr. Scarlett puts on the chauffeur hat after the lab coat comes off: during her very impressive workweek, she has to juggle taking the boys to sports like basketball and track, along with keeping a visible role with the Parent Teacher Association at their schools. And, if that is not enough, she also has to make sure her wheelchair-bound father gets to his own doctor's appointments.