Clinical Expertise for Leah Scherzer
Dr. Scherzer joined us in July 2023 to serve as Medical Director for the Pediatric and YHEP Health Centers. She received her medical degree from Brown University and completed her Pediatric Residency at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. She then spent 2 years in Botswana with the Baylor Pediatric AIDS Corps and a year in South Africa working for South to South, an HIV education and training program. More recently, she worked as a pediatric attending outpatient physician at St. Christopher’s and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine.
She has also served as the Co-Chair of the Global Health Committee at St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, where she helped create a Global Health curriculum and organized Global Health events. In October 2017 she passed the ALTA language certification for providers and is certified to complete medical visits in Spanish. She completed her Lactation counselor training in September 2019 and is passionate about helping mothers in their breastfeeding journeys.
