Dr. Asem Bakkar, general surgeon, joins PMC staff

MEEKER I Pioneers Medical Center (PMC) is welcoming a new general surgeon this week as Dr. Mohammad Asem Bakkar, who prefers the use of his middle name, Asem, began seeing patients on Wednesday.

Bakkar, 46, comes to Meeker after spending six years in a surgical residency with Maricopa Integrated Health Systems in Phoenix, Ariz.
Bakkar’s training and specialties there were open appendectomies, colon and rectal surgeries, various hernia repairs, thyroidectomies and gall…