Doctor Sherer, a Richmond native, was born in January of 1922. He graduated
in 1940 from the Richmond Senior High School. Soon after graduating, World War
II broke out and Dr. Sherer saw action in the South Pacific. During battles
around Okinawa in 1945, he survived a Kamikaze attack on his ship, the U.S.S.
Mercy.
He returned to Richmond after the war and graduated from Earlham College with
a Bachelors Degree, in 1946. He went on to Medical School at Northwestern
University in Chicago, Illinois, graduating in December of 1949. Dr. Sherer, now
a physician, took his internship at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, and then
went on to a General Surgery residency at the Hines Veterans Hospital in the
Chicago area. Dr. Sherer completed his residency in Chicago in 1956, and
returned to Richmond to practice.
He soon joined George Johnson, M.D. in a practice that was soon to become
General Surgeons Inc. That practice was the second medical group in the state to
incorporate, and is now the oldest existing incorporated medical practice in the
state of Indiana.
During his career, Dr. Sherer performed all types of surgeries, but had a
special interest in thoracic and vascular surgeries. He performed the first
successful repair of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm in Richmond.
Dr. Sherer retired from medical practice in 1987, and now pursues multiple
interests, including his television program, seen here locally on WCTV Channel
11, " RICHMOND IN MOTION."
