Elisabeth Fowlie Mock, MD, MPH, FAAFP

Elisabeth Fowlie Mock, MD, MPH, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians (FAAFP) and a member of its board of directors. She grew up in New England and traveled to the Southeast to complete her undergraduate degree, medical school, residency and master’s degree. She was one of only two in a medical school class of 100 who matched in family medicine. If it were not for the inspiring family physicians she met during an away rotation, her medical degree might indeed have been “wasted,” just in a different specialty. A few years following residency, she returned home to Maine—a state she describes as one big small town.

Mock considers family physicians the most “todi-potential” in all medicine. She has worked in a wide range of clinical settings, including outpatient and inpatient medicine, public health clinic including outpatient maternity and pediatric care, urgent care, full-time residency faculty with maternity care and low-barrier addiction care. She currently works weekend nocturnist shifts at her community referral hospital, which serves a catchment area that includes a third of her rural state’s population and two-thirds of its land mass.

During the 12 years she homeschooled her three children while working night shifts, she developed a passion for delivering CME on topics related to evidence-based prescribing. That interest eventually led to consulting roles related to the opioid crisis.

Mock’s AAFP leadership experience includes serving in multiple roles within her medium-sized chapter, 15 years as an alternate and delegate to the Congress of Delegates, and five years on the Commission for Continuing Professional Development—including one year as chair. She has also completed two year-long leadership intensives comparable to graduate certificate programs.

Mock’s enthusiasm for family medicine is matched only by her passion for girls’ and women’s basketball. Due to shortages in her community, she became a certified basketball official when she was 51 years old. A few years ago, she set a still-elusive goal to obtain a competitive chess rating of 1,000 (advice welcome). In her spare time, she gives speeches at her Toastmasters club, plays with her three doodle dogs, travels by RV, sings in choir and spends time with family.