Bakary Jatta, M.D.
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Bakary Jatta, M.D.

Chair & Founder, HMD

Dr. Jatta is the Chair and Founder of HMD, a global physician-led platform dedicated to advancing elite medical education, leadership, and innovation. He hails from The Gambia, a beautiful nation in West Africa, where his early exposure to healthcare shaped a lifelong commitment to clinical excellence and systems-level impact.

Driven by a desire to make an indelible contribution to medicine, Dr. Jatta pursued his medical education at the University of The Gambia, earning his degree in Medicine and Surgery after a rigorous academic and clinical training. He briefly practiced at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital — The Gambia’s largest teaching hospital — before relocating to the United States.

Dr. Jatta is beginning PGY-1 in internal medicine this July at the Tennova Healthcare in Knoxville, Tennessee. His passion for evidence-based medicine, physician leadership, and healthcare innovation, led to the founding of HMD to train 21st-century physicians.

Through HMD, he is leading a paradigm shift to empower physicians as leaders and executives by integrating medicine with business administration, public health and policy, and health informatics literacy. His vision reflects a conviction that the future of healthcare depends on physicians who are not only clinically astute, but also strategically equipped to shape institutions; one that truly defines modern medicine, both in letter and in spirit.