Elisabeth Fowlie Mock, MD, MPH, FAAFP
Director
From rural practice to national leadership, Dr. Mock champions family medicine.
Elisabeth Fowlie Mock, MD, MPH, is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians 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 a 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, she may not have discovered family medicine. A few years following residency, she returned home to Maine—a state she describes as one big small town.
A career rooted in versatility and service
Dr. Mock considers family physicians the most todipotent in all of medicine. She has worked in a wide range of clinical settings, including outpatient and inpatient medicine, public health clinics that include 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 and controlled substance prescribing.
Dr. 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.
Leading by example—on and off the court
Dr. 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 spent a couple of years in her 50s working as a certified middle school basketball referee. In her spare time, she gives speeches at her Toastmasters club, plays with her three doodle dogs, travels and sings in two choral groups. She has three adult children in their twenties.