{"id":277612,"date":"2026-03-31T12:32:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:32:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-southcoast-health-multi.southcoast-health.org\/doctors\/dennis-larock-md\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T05:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:12:12","slug":"dennis-larock-md","status":"publish","type":"doctors","link":"https:\/\/www.southcoast.org\/pt\/doctors\/dennis-larock-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis LaRock MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"grid\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-12 maincopy blogCore\">\n<p>O Dr. Dennis LaRock \u00e9 o Vice-Presidente Executivo e Diretor M\u00e9dico da Southcoast Health, com efeitos a partir de 1 de mar\u00e7o de 2024. Esta fun\u00e7\u00e3o \u00e9 a de l\u00edder m\u00e9dico s\u00e9nior da Southcoast Health, respons\u00e1vel por garantir os mais elevados n\u00edveis de cuidados cl\u00ednicos de qualidade em todo o sistema.\n<\/p>\n<p>Tem mais de 25 anos de experi\u00eancia cl\u00ednica na Southcoast Health e uma vasta experi\u00eancia em cirurgia laparosc\u00f3pica e rob\u00f3tica. O Dr. LaRock foi o primeiro cirurgi\u00e3o a efetuar cirurgia rob\u00f3tica na Southcoast Health em 2008. A cirurgia rob\u00f3tica \u00e9 agora o padr\u00e3o de tratamento para muitos procedimentos cir\u00fargicos numa s\u00e9rie de especialidades cir\u00fargicas. Ao longo da sua carreira, introduziu uma s\u00e9rie de novos procedimentos urol\u00f3gicos na \u00e1rea de Greater Fall River, para al\u00e9m da cirurgia rob\u00f3tica, incluindo a braquiterapia da pr\u00f3stata, e conduziu investiga\u00e7\u00e3o sobre a abla\u00e7\u00e3o criocir\u00fargica do cancro da pr\u00f3stata.\n<\/p>\n<p>O Dr. LaRock foi nomeado M\u00e9dico-Chefe dos Servi\u00e7os Cir\u00fargicos em 2022 e permanecer\u00e1 nesta fun\u00e7\u00e3o no futuro imediato, enquanto avalia a nova estrutura de M\u00e9dico-Chefe que lhe ser\u00e1 subordinada.\n<\/p>\n<p>Como M\u00e9dico Chefe dos Servi\u00e7os Cir\u00fargicos, o Dr. LaRock supervisiona os departamentos cir\u00fargicos de Urologia, Cirurgia Tor\u00e1cica, Pl\u00e1stica, Ortopedia, Cirurgia Geral, Traumatologia, Otorrinolaringologia, Obstetr\u00edcia e Ginecologia e o Brain &amp; Spine Center. Ele manter\u00e1 essas responsabilidades, al\u00e9m de suas fun\u00e7\u00f5es como co-chefe de urologia e chefe de cirurgia rob\u00f3tica na Southcoast Health.\n<\/p>\n<p>O Dr. LaRock tornou-se membro da equipa m\u00e9dica do Southcoast Hospitals Group (SHG) em 1998 e a sua cl\u00ednica privada juntou-se ao Southcoast Physician Group (SPG) em 2012.\n<\/p>\n<p>Concluiu os seus estudos de licenciatura e de medicina na Universidade de Boston e completou a sua resid\u00eancia cir\u00fargica em Urologia no Tufts New England Medical Center. Mais tarde, tornou-se professor assistente na Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Tufts, onde recebeu v\u00e1rios pr\u00e9mios de \"Excel\u00eancia no Ensino\".\n<\/p>\n<p>O Dr. LaRock \u00e9 certificado em urologia adulta e pedi\u00e1trica e \u00e9 um Diplomata do Conselho Americano de Urologia. \u00c9 membro da American Urological Association e da Massachusetts Association of Practicing Urologists. 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