Alumni Lecture: Dr. Philip Scherer

Please join us in thanking residency program alum, Dr. Philip Scherer for giving a virtual guest lecture, “Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy: 177Lutetium-DOTATATE” to our residents on Tuesday, January 4, 2022. Following his lecture, he also gave Nuclear Medicine Board Review to the R3 residents preparing to take the board exam later this year.

Dr. Scherer earned his undergraduate degree in Microbiology at Brigham Young University. He earned his medical degree from University of Florida College of Medicine. He completed a transitional year residency at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he served as a chief resident. He completed residency in Diagnostic Radiology at University of Florida College of Medicine and fellowship in Nuclear Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis.

He joined the Vanderbilt University faculty in 2020 as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology & Radiological Sciences. His interests include general and therapeutic nuclear medicine, nuclear cardiology, PET CT, mentorship, teaching, and quality improvement. In 2021, he was appointed Associate Program Director of the Nuclear Medicine Residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.


Headshot of Doctor Philip Scherer

Vanderbilt University

Philip Scherer, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology & Radiological Sciences