Michael B. Potter, MD

Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, A.B., 1980-84, Biochemical Sciences
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, M.D., 1986-90, Medicine
San Francisco General Hospital -UCSF, Resident, 1990-93, Family Practice

• 1984-86
  Public Health Consultant, Management Sciences for Health, Haiti, West Indies
• 1993-1994
  Chief Resident, San Francisco General Hospital Family Practice Residency Program
• 1994-present
  Attending Physician, UCSF Family Medicine Faculty Practice
• 1994-2002
  Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF
• 2002-present
  Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF
• 2004-present
  Co-Director, UCSF Collaborative Research Network
• 2004-present
  Associate Member, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
• 2005-present
  Member, UCSF Committee on Human Research (SFGH)
• 2006-present
  Member, Committee on Human Research, UCSF

• 1984
  Graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College
• 1987
  Paul Dudley White Fellowship, Harvard Medical School
• 1994
  Julius Krevans Award for Clinical Excellence as an Intern
• 1995, 1996
  UCSF Student Homeless Clinic Certificates of Appreciation
• 1998, 1999
  UCSF "MedTeach" Awards for Precepting Medical Students
• 2001
  UCSF Kaiser Teaching Award Nominee
• 2003, 2005
  Listed in Bay Area's "Best Doctors" in San Francisco Magazine

• Potter, MB and Walko, E. "Back pain in an eight-year-old", The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 1992;11(3): 247-8, 250-1.
• Potter MB. "Ethnicity and rates of overweight", The Journal of Family Practice, 1998 Sept, 47(3), 235.
• Potter MB, Schafer S, Gonzalez-Mendez E, Gjeltema K, Lopez A, Wu J, Pedrin R, Cozen M, Wilson R, Thom D, Croughan-Minihane M. "Opioids for chronic nonmalignant pain: attitudes and practices of primary care physicians", The Journal of Family Practice 2001;145-151.
• Potter MB, Vu J, Croughan-Minihane M. "Weight management: what patients want from their primary care doctors", The Journal of Family Practice 2001;513-518.
• Potter, MB. "Treatment of obese patients should include weight loss", Am Fam Physician 2002;65:28. Retrieved August 21, 2002 from World Wide Web: http://www.aafp.org/afp/20020702/lettersonline.html
• Piette JD, Schillinger D, Potter MB, Wagner T. "Dimensions of patient-provider communication and diabetes self-care in an ethnically diverse population", J Gen Intern Med 2003;18:634-633.
• Piette JD, Wagner T, Potter MB, Schillinger D. "Health Insurance Status, Cost-Related Medication Underuse, and Outcomes Among Diabetes Patients in Three Systems of Care", Med Care 2004;42:102-109.
• Potter MB. "Chronic pain management: practical tips and guidelines" Johns Hopkins University Adv Stud Med 2004;4:31-40.
• Potter MB, Johnson YM, Zevin BS. "Chronic Pain Management" in Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice, & Populations. Ed by King, T, et al. To be published by McGraw Hill in 2005.
• Potter MB "NSAIDS Alone or With Opioids for Cancer Pain" American Family Physician, August, 2005.