Medical Team

Carrie Birkhead Scharf, MD

Radiation Oncologist

Carrie Birkhead Scharf, MD

Carole “Carrie” Birkhead Scharf, MD is a board-certified radiation oncologist at Louisville CyberKnife.

Dr. Scharf has over 30 years of experience in the medical field and her areas of interest are tumors in the breast, central nervous system, gastrointestinal tract, and lung.

She received her Bachelor of Arts in mathematics from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and her medical doctorate from the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky. She completed her internship in internal medicine at the University of Louisville, and her radiation oncology residency at Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois.

Dr. Scharf has been honored with several awards including being recognized as a “Top Doc” in Louisville Magazine numerous times, and a Top 10% of Providers in Patient Satisfaction Scores for multiple years.