Bob Kocher

Bob Kocher, MD is an affiliated professor at Stanford Health Policy and a partner at Venrock, a healthcare venture capital firm, who focuses on healthcare IT and services investments. He currently serves on the boards of Devoted Health, Virta Health, Aledade, Lyra Health, Sitka, Need, Accompany Health and Premera Blue Cross.  He is a board observer at Grand Rounds, Doctor on Demand, Stride, Suki, SmithRx and the Public Health Company.

Additionally, he is an adjunct professor in the Department of Health Policy at the Stanford University School of Medicine and  serves on its advisory board. Kocher is a non-resident senior fellow and advisory board member at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at USC.  He also serves on the advisory board of the National Institute of Healthcare Management (NIHCM).

Prior to Venrock, Kocher served in the Obama Administration as special assistant to the president for healthcare and economic policy on the National Economic Council, as a partner at McKinsey & Company, and is an internal medicine doctor.