 In 2009 Scherer was appointed for the professorship health care research and became Deputy Director of the Institute for Social Medicine of the University of Lübeck.Also in 2009 Scherer was founding member and Deputy Speaker of the academical Center for population medicine and health care research.Since 2012 Scherer has been director of the department of Primary Medical Care and head of the division of general medicine at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorff.