Vascular Surgeon
Asheville Vein Center
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
Richard received his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Virginia, where he was an Echols Scholar and Resident of the Lawn. He completed a six-year residency in general surgery at the University of Louisville, a year of research at the University of Sydney, and a two-year fellowship in vascular surgery at UCLA.
In 1995 Bock moved to Asheville to open and grow its Vascular Center. He served on Mission Health System's Board of Directors and its Finance committee from 2005 to 2015. He created the Mission Board Immersion Program, and his paper describing the program was published in the New England Journal of Medicine as its lead article in March, 2016.
During these years Dr. Bock also performed basic science, animal, and human clinical research; in 2009 he won a North Carolina Biotechnology Center grant for his work on vein disease.
In 2015 he became Chief of Vascular Surgery at Novant Presbyterian Hospital (Charlotte), where he built a four-surgeon, tertiary vascular surgery program. After recruiting his successor, he returned to Asheville in July, 2019 to open his dream practice: the Asheville Vein Center, where he, Danielle Fontenot MD, and their team provide high-quality, patient-centered care of vein disease.
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Tuesday, September 19, 2023
3:20 PM – 3:30 PM US EDT
