Dr. Scherrer has over 20 years research experience beginning as a research assistant in psychobiology. Dr. Scherrer first joined SLU in 1990 as a research assistant in the Department of Geriatric Medicine. After moving to SLU’s School of Public Health he worked on behavior genetic studies of substance use disorder and psychiatric comorbidity. In 2004 he joined the faculty of Washington University Department of Psychiatry and in 2008, he began a joint appointment with the St. Louis VAMC after receiving a Career Development Award from the VA’s Health Services Research and Development program. Dr. Scherrer’s research is best characterized by an overarching interest in comorbidity, mind-body relationships and secondary data analysis using large medical record cohorts.