Charles N. Mock

Charles N. Mock is a professor of Global Health, Surgery, and Epidemiology at the University of Washington and expert on injury prevention and trauma care in low- and middle-income countries.

Education Mock earned his bachelor's in biology from Brown University in 1977, and after graduating from Brown's Alpert Medical School in 1980, remained in Rhode Island to complete his residency at Rhode Island Hospital. He later completed a fellowship in surgery at Harborview Medical Center.

Mock became board certified in surgery in 1989, and surgical critical care in 1992, both by the American Board of Surgery.

Career In 2005, Charles Mock was named the Director of the Harborview Injury Prevention Research Center (HIPRC) at the University of Washington in Seattle, stating that his three goals for the center were: to support the work already being done by the researchers there, to be more involved with local communities and governments to employ proven injury-control strategies, and to increase the center's international reach. While at UW, Mock co-edited Guidelines for Essential Trauma Care, published by the World Health Organization in 2004. He has extensively with collaborators in Ghana, India, Mexico and Vietnam. The checklist was tested through a large global collaboration of countries from all income levels, and was found to be appropriate for use in any emergency care setting and easily locally adapted.

Personal life Mock speaks Spanish, Portuguese, and French.