Douglas Scherr

Douglas S. Scherr, born on 7 January 1967, is an American surgeon who specializes in urologic oncology, the surgical and medical care of cancers of the urinary and male reproductive systems. He serves as Clinical Director of Urologic Oncology at NewYork-Presbyterian and Weill Cornell Medicine and holds a visiting appointment at the Rockefeller University. A native of New York, he studied government at Cornell University, spent a year in Shenyang, China, trained in medicine at the George Washington University School of Medicine, completed a six-year urology residency at New York-Presbyterian Hospital and then a two-year fellowship in urologic oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He is described as the first physician at Cornell to perform a robotic prostatectomy and a robotic cystectomy, and his clinical focus covers prostate, bladder, kidney and testicular cancers and sarcomas of the genitourinary tract and retroperitoneum. His laboratory work has addressed the hormonal regulation of bladder cancer and the use of the innate immune system against urologic tumors, and he has patented a laser-based approach called multiphoton endoscopy for imaging tissue at the microscopic level. This entry records what is publicly stated about his career and gives no medical advice.