Dr. Crocker’s Bio

Dr John Crocker, physician and author of Following Fifi: My Adventures Among Wild Chimpanzees, a narrative of the author's time as a pre-med student working with Jane Goodall researching chimpanzees in Africa and how that experience informed his practice as a family doctor working with patients who have ADD, ADHD, depression and anxiety.

John Crocker, MD is a retired family physician after thirty-five years of practice in Seattle, Washington. He was born and raised in Portland, Oregon and attended Stanford University. He received his MD from Case Western School of Medicine in Cleveland.
Dr. Crocker has written for the Huffington Post about lessons learned from our closest living relatives and published “Following Fifi” (Pegasus) with forward by Jane Goodall in 2018.
He has served as the ship physician on Semester at Sea, served as volunteer island doctor for the island of Barbuda in the Caribbean and was medical chief of the Northgate Group Health Medical Center, serving 30,000 patients in Seattle.
He and his wife raised two boys and lives in Seattle.

Presentation Title

Lessons I learned from Jane Goodall