Gunter Scharer

Chief Medical Officer & Medical Director at RPRD Diagnostics

Gunter Scharer, MD, is a board-certified medical geneticist with 15+ years of clinical and laboratory experience. He is board-certified in Clinical Genetics, Clinical Molecular Genetics, and Medical Biochemical Genetics, and licensed to practice in multiple states. Dr. Scharer is a renowned geneticist with deep experience in rare disorders and mitochondrial disease. He is a member of the Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC) and Pharmacogenomics Research Network (PGRN). Prior to joining RPRD, Dr. Scharer was the director of the Department of Medical Genetics and Genomics at Children’s Minnesota and Adjunct Associate Professor in Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin.