A Bit About Me
Dr. Andrew Mock is a board-certified physician practicing family, preventive, lifestyle, and obesity medicine. His journey into medicine started long before medical school. As a teenager, he left high school for health reasons and earned his GED, an experience that gave him a deep empathy for others navigating health challenges. Later, while helping his father through esophageal cancer, he saw firsthand how nutrition, movement, and lifestyle could make a meaningful difference in the impact on wellbeing when facing terminal illness. Those experiences shaped his passion for lifestyle medicine and his belief that healthcare should do more than treat disease; it should teach, guide, and empower people to build lasting health.
Teaching has always been at the heart of Dr. Mock’s calling. The root word of “doctor,” docere, means “to teach,” and he has carried that into every role from mentoring medical students and residents to creating programs that help patients take charge of their own health. At Loma Linda University, he served as Clerkship Director for Preventive Medicine and Population Health, physician lead for the Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum, and Medical Director of the Center for Health Promotion. He also led the Street Medicine program, bringing care to the unhoused, and introduced innovative tools such as remote patient monitoring to connect daily habits with long-term wellbeing.
Outside of medicine, Dr. Mock is a four-time California’s Strongest Man and professional strongman athlete. He is also the owner of H.O.T. Barbell Club, a strength training and community gym in Redlands, California. His love of strength training and performance science not only inspires the way he helps patients find joy and confidence in movement, but has also shaped a thriving and supportive environment where people of all levels can train together. Through his coaching, Dr. Mock has mentored multiple national and world champion strength athletes, while fostering a gym culture that welcomes anyone seeking to build strength for health, confidence, and longevity.
Today, Dr. Mock serves as the Medical Lead of Hoag Compass, a new program that combines digital health, lifestyle medicine, and personalized coaching to help individuals live healthier, longer lives. Nationally, he serves on the Boards of Directors for the Medical Fitness Association and the Physical Activity Alliance, and as the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s delegate to the American Medical Association. Through these roles, he works to advance policy, education, and standards that make lifestyle medicine and medical fitness more accessible across healthcare and public health. A key part of his advocacy is improving the wellbeing of clinicians themselves, recognizing that healthier, more resilient healthcare professionals are better equipped to care for their patients.
Dr. Mock is also the Lead Clinical Advisor for the MRF Institute, where he helps shape programs that connect patients, clinicians, and health systems through medical fitness and lifestyle medicine. And if you ever get an email from him, you’ll notice he always signs off “In Strength” with a capital “S.” It’s his way of reminding everyone just how important strength is — in body, in health, and in life.