Lauren E. Hock, MD

Lauren E. Hock, MD is a fellowship-trained Glaucoma Specialist at the Wills Eye Hospital. She also serves as an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University.

Dr. Hock completed her medical education at Rush Medical College in Chicago, IL. She graduated with top academic honors from medical school and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. She completed her internship and ophthalmology residency at the University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, where she received the Kolder Memorial Humanitarian Award for exceptional community service and the Arbisser ‘Top Gun’ award for creating an innovative solution to a problem facing the Department of Ophthalmology. As a resident she was awarded an American Medical Association Accelerating Change in Medical Education Innovation Grant as co-principal investigator of an innovative curriculum to empower medical trainees to address discrimination and harassment in the clinical setting. She subsequently completed her glaucoma fellowship at Wills Eye Hospital, where she was awarded the Rick Bay Excellence in Eyecare Education Scholarship for integrity, compassion, partnership, and dedication to the greater good.

Dr. Hock is committed to providing patient-centered care, refining new frameworks to improve glaucoma medical and surgical education, and contributing to novel research that may improve treatment options for Philadelphia area glaucoma patients.