Thomas L.H Hocker MD MPhil

Thomas L.H. Hocker, MD is dual board certified through the American Board of Dermatology for both general Dermatology and Dermatopathology, and is a fellow of the American College of Mohs Micrographic Surgery and Cutaneous Oncology. Dr. Hocker is a native of San Jose, California, and attended Yale University where he was a Verizon 1st Team Academic All-American scholar athlete in Track and Field, Yale Senior scholar-athlete of the year, Pfizer Research Fellow, and an inductee into the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society. Upon graduation, he was awarded the prestigious Churchill Fellowship, which afforded him the opportunity to pursue research at the University of Cambridge, where he received his Master's degree in Organic Chemistry. He then completed his Transitional Internship at the Stanford University-affiliated hospital, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Dr. Hocker received his Dermatology residency training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. At the Mayo Clinic, he published numerous scholarly papers, won the Duels in Dermatopathology competition at the ASDP national meeting, and twice scored in the top percentile in the Dermatology in-training examination. Upon graduation, Mayo Clinic named him the Harold O. Perry Most Outstanding Scholar, a distinction given only 3 times in the preceding decade. He subsequently traveled to the University of Michigan for his Dermatopathology fellowship, one of the premier skin cancer treatment centers in the country. He concluded his many years of training by returning to the Mayo Clinic for his fellowship in Mohs and Reconstructive Surgery, where he studied under many of the nation's premier Mohs surgeons. Dr. Hocker currently practices Dermatology, Dermatopathology and Mohs Surgery in Kansas City and is an adjunct professor of Dermatology at the University of Kansas, where he cherishes being involved in resident education.