Alexander Scherer, MD, PhD

Bio

Alexander Scherer, MD, PhD, is a native of central Indiana. He completed his undergraduate degree at Stanford University, combined MD-PhD education at Yale University, and internal medicine residency at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis/Barnes-Jewish Hospital. He returned to Indiana to complete a combined fellowship in transplant hepatology and gastroenterology at Indiana University School of Medicine, where he also served as chief fellow, before joining the faculty in 2026. He cares for patients at clinics in Indianapolis and Carmel, performs endoscopic procedures in Carmel, and attends on the inpatient hepatology services in Indianapolis. He cares for patients requiring evaluation for liver transplantation, following liver transplantation, and for other liver disorders including liver cancers and masses, cirrhosis, abnormal liver tests, metabolic associated liver disease, and alcohol-associated liver disease. His primary academic interests are multidisciplinary management of liver cancer and patient outcomes after liver transplantation including patient-reported quality of life and complications related to immunosuppression.