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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 2013

Assar Ahmed Rather, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery
  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Am Soc of Col& Rec Surg
  • Am Medical Association
  • Soc of Am Gast End Surgs
  • Am Soc of Genl Surgeons

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Hospital Based

Colon-Rectal Surgery

640 S State St

Dover, DE 19901

United States

Contact Information

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Anorectal Disease

  • anal abscess
  • anal fissure
  • anal fistula
  • anal sphincter repair
  • anal tears
  • anal warts
  • Anorectal Disease
  • anorectal malformations
  • colonoscopy
  • hemorrhoid problems
  • hemorrhoidal banding
  • prolapsing hemorroids
  • rectal bleeding
  • rectal prolapse
  • recto-vaginal fistula
  • sphincter repair
  • sphincter sparing surgery

Colon and Rectal Disorder/Procedures

Colon and Rectal Cancer/Tumors

  • anal cancer
  • Colon and Rectal Cancer/Tumors
  • colon cancer screening
  • colon surgery
  • colon/rectal cancer
  • colonic polyps
  • colostomy
  • diverticular disease
  • ileostomy
  • intussusception
  • laparoscopic colon surgery
  • Meckel's diverticulum
  • peritonitis

Gastrointestinal

  • abdominal pain
  • gastric tube
  • jejunostomy tube
  • peritonitis

Colon and Rectal Other

Diagnostic Imaging/procedures

Bowel Control

  • bowel incontinence
  • constipation
  • diarrhea
  • incontinence, fecal

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

  • Crohn's disease
  • ulcerative colitis

Minimal Invasive/Endoscopic Procedures

  • colon/rectal cancer screening
  • colonoscopic polypectomy
  • colonoscopy
  • colonoscopy/virtual
  • colonscopy
  • endoscopic surgery
  • flexible sigmoidoscopy
  • laparoscopic surgery for colon and recta
  • Local excision
  • Minimal Invasive/Endoscopic Procedures
  • minimally invasive surgery
  • Procedure for prolapsing hemorrhoids
  • robotic-assisted colon surgery
  • Sphincter sparing surgery
  • Trans anal Endoscopic Microsurgery
  • Trans anal Endoscopic Surgery
  • Trans anal Minimally Invasive Surgery

Hospital Appointments

Bayhealth Medical Center

Dover, DE

Trauma/Acute Care Surgeon

09/2011—03/2012