Surgeon’s passion is to jump out of planes — with a parachute, of course

Executive: Dr. Jennifer Bocker, chief medical officer at Doctor’s Hospital in Sarasota. In addition to her administrative role, Bocker, 49, is a board-certified general surgeon with specialty training in level 1 trauma surgery and head and neck surgical oncology. Bocker, who moved to Sarasota in December 2021 from Colorado, where she worked for a medical practice, also has an MBA. 

Diversion. Skydiving. Bocker has performed somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 jumps, which, she says, makes her a baby in the sport compared to others. Her husband Brian Ball, for example, has 8,000 jumps. Bocker has one skydiving world record, in the women’s large format sit position.