Dr. Scott Hughes Landry MD

Expert Publications

• Relation of mothers' affective developmental history and parenting behavior: effects on infant medical risk.
• Early maternal and child influences on children's later independent cognitive and social functioning.
• How do mothers' childrearing histories, stress and parenting affect children's behavioural outcomes?
• Cognitive and motor abilities in preschool hydrocephalics.
• Joint attention of six-month-old Down syndrome and preterm infants: I. Attention to toys and mother.
• Goal-directed behavior in children with spina bifida.
• Joint attention and infant toy exploration: effects of Down syndrome and prematurity.
• The effects of intraventricular hemorrhage on functional communication skills in preterm toddlers.
• The effect of social context on the functional communication skills of autistic children.
• Communication behaviors in autism and developmental language delay.
• Three-year outcomes for low birth weight infants: differential effects of early medical complications.
• The functions of immediate echolalia in autistic children: a developmental
• Speech acts and the pragmatic deficits of autism.
• Joint attention and language in autism and developmental language delay.
• Behavioral adjustment of children with hydrocephalus: relationships with etiology, neurological, and family status.

Media Releases

Get to know Pulmonologist Dr. Scott H. Landry, who serves patients in Savannah, Georgia. 

Dr. Landry is a triple board-certified pulmonologist with Southeast Lung Associates in Savannah, Georgia. 

His hospital affiliations in the area include Candler Hospital, Landmark Hospital of Savannah, Select Specialty Hospital, and St. Joseph’s Hospital.

The physicians of Southeast Lung Associates use the most technologically advanced tools to diagnose and treat a number of pulmonary and critical care conditions. They pride themselves on being a regional leader in the areas of sleep apnea, interventional bronchoscopy, lung cancer, COPD, pulmonary hypertension, interstitial lung disease, and asthma. 

Equipped with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from Louisiana State University in 1992, Dr. Landry went on to earn his medical degree from the Louisiana State University School of Medicine in New Orleans in 1996.

Continuing his educational journey, he performed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Wake Forest University School of Medicine (1996-1999), followed by his fellowship in pulmonary medicine and critical care medicine at Dartmouth–Hitchcock Medical Center (1999-2002).

Board-certified in internal medicine, pulmonology disease, and critical care medicine, Dr. Landry is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). The ABIM is a physician-led, non-profit, independent evaluation organization driven by doctors who want to achieve higher standards for better care in a rapidly changing world.

In addition to being a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians (FCCP), Dr. Landry is a member of the American Thoracic Society, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Neurocritical Care Society.

Pulmonology is a medical specialty that deals with diseases involving the respiratory tract. A pulmonologist is an internal medicine physician who specializes in preventing, diagnosing, and treating conditions and diseases that affect the lungs, bronchial tubes, and the respiratory system, including the nose, pharynx, and throat.

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