 Since 2015 he is vice president of the German College of General Practitioners and Family Physicians (DEGAM) and since 2006 speaker of the Clinical Guidelines Committee.From 1993 until 1999 Scherer studied medicine in Marburg, Vienna and Paris.After he had finished his specialist training in general medicine in 2004, Scherer was research assistant in the division of general medicine of the University hospital Göttingen, from 2006 on as senior physician.