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

Dr. Jennifer Bocker has performed somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 jumps.


  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 5:00 a.m. January 11, 2023
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Dr. Jennifer Bocker first went skydiving in 2006. (Courtesy photo)
Dr. Jennifer Bocker first went skydiving in 2006. (Courtesy photo)
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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. 

 

 


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Mark Gordon

Mark Gordon is the managing editor of the Business Observer. He has worked for the Business Observer since 2005. He previously worked for newspapers and magazines in upstate New York, suburban Philadelphia and Jacksonville.

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