Elisabeth Fowlie Mock, MD, MPH, FAAFP

Personal Statement

From the moment I attended my first Congress of Delegates in 2005, I knew I wanted to be part of the Academy’s leadership. For two decades, I have intentionally sought out opportunities to prepare myself for this moment. I have developed the skills necessary to listen carefully and speak up confidently. 

I will bring several specific voices to the AAFP Board table: rural areas and their unique pipeline challenges, addiction and social drivers of health, the small business owner/self-employed physician, and the community academic. I look forward to sharing my energy, enthusiasm and passion for family medicine (and life) as we prepare for the COD. In addition to discussing and debating timely health care issues, I am always ready to talk some basketball!

I am Mock from Maine, family medicine to the core. I look forward to earning your vote.

Biography 

Elisabeth Fowlie Mock, MD, MPH, FAAFP, grew up in New England and traveled to the Southeast to finish her undergraduate degree, medical school, residency and master’s degree. She was one of two in a medical school class of 100 who matched in family medicine. If it were not for the amazing family physicians she met during an away rotation, her medical degree might indeed have been “wasted,” only in a different specialty. A few years out from residency, she returned home to Maine — a state that is one big small town.

Dr. Mock considers family physicians as the most “todi-potential” in all medicine. She has worked in a number 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 that has a catchment area including one-third of her rural state’s population and two thirds of its land mass.

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

Dr. Mock’s AAFP leadership experience includes filling many roles in her medium-sized chapter, serving as alternate and delegate in the Congress of Delegates for 15 years, and five years on the Commission for Continuing Professional Development, including a year as chair. She has completed two year-long leadership intensives similar to graduate certificate programs.

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 became a certified basketball official at age 51. A few years ago, she set a still elusive goal to obtain a competitive rating of 1,000 in chess—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.