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ARIZONA HEMORRHOID CENTER
PROCTOLOGY ASSOCIATES
Our office is conveniently located in Phoenix
between three major freeways.
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The Staff and I look forward to helping you
with any problems or concerns that you may have.
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Sincerely,
Dr. Rick Shacket
About Our Doctors
Dr. Rick Shacket
Dr. Robert Gear
Rick A. Shacket, D.O., M.D.
(H.)
Dr. Rick Shacket is a board certified specialist; certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Proctology, the American Board of Laser Surgery, and the American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians. He is a Fellow of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery.
Dr. Shacket received a Bachelors Degree from Hillsdale College, in Hillsdale, Michigan. He received his Medical Degree from the Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific, in Pomona, California. He received postdoctoral training in homeopathic medicine from the American Medical College of Homeopathy, in Phoenix, Arizona. He is dually licensed by the State of Arizona as a Doctor of Medicine (Homeopathic), and as an Osteopathic Physician and Surgeon. He served an internship at Hillside Hospital, in San Diego, California. Dr. Shacket received specialty training in colonoscopy and anal rectal surgery in a proctology postdoctoral training program affiliated with Phoenix General Hospital, Arizona. Doctors Shacket and Bernhard cofounded the first hemorrhoid specialty clinics in the States of Arizona and California in 1986.
In 2007, Dr. Shacket served as a Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Clinical Education at Midwestern University Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine in Glendale, where he lectured medical students on the diagnosis and treatment of colon, rectal, and anal disorders. He was featured in the Phoenix Magazine 2008 Top Doctors issue for his work in Phlebology.
Dr. Shacket is a national lecturer on the subject of proctology and hemorrhoids. He is the author of most of the text found on this web site, of a medical textbook on the treatment of hemorrhoids, and of numerous articles that have appeared in medical publications and newspapers throughout the country.
Dr. Shacket is from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He has four children, and lives in Phoenix, Arizona and La Jolla, California.
Robert Lee Gear Jr., D.C., N.M.D.
Dr. Robert Gear Jr. is the Medical Director of the Phoenix Hemorrhoid Care Medical Clinic. He maintains a proctology and integrative medicine practice, in Phoenix Arizona. He is Board Certified in Minor Surgery and Family Medicine by the Naturopathic Physicians Medical Board. He is past president of the Arizona Naturopathic Medical Association, and serves as a Clinical Professor for the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences, in Phoenix Arizona
Dr. Gear completed his premedical studies at Phoenix College. He received a degree in chiropractic medicine from the National College of Chiropractic, in Chicago Illinois. Dr. Gear received his Naturopathic M.D. degree from the National College of Naturopathic Medicine, in Portland Oregon, in 1979.
Dr. Gear received specialty training in proctology in 1986-88, from Dr. Rick Shacket, founder of the Hemorrhoid Care Medical Clinic. His research experience includes the treatment of colon and rectal disorders with colon hydrotherapy. His subspecialty interest is the treatment of hemorrhoids using painless non-surgical techniques.
