ABOUT JOHN CROCKER

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 where he met Dr. Jane Goodall. He received his MD from Case Western School of Medicine in Cleveland.

 Dr. Crocker is a popular speaker at high schools, colleges and universities, and other educational venues on primate behavior and has written for the Huffington Post about lessons learned from our closest living relatives. He published “Following Fifi” (Pegasus) with forward by Jane Goodall in 2018. The book describes his eight months of work as a student with Dr. Goodall studying wild chimpanzees at her study site in Tanzania, East Africa.

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 Heath Medical Center, serving 30,000 patients in Seattle.

He and his wife raised two boys and lives in Seattle.