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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

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.

Selected Abstracts

Potter MB. "Opioids for chronic nonmalignant pain: attitudes and practices of primary care physicians", presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group in Montreal, Quebec, and at the Annual Meeting of the American Pain Society in San Diego, in Nov 1998.

Potter MB. "Weight management: what patients want", presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group in Montreal, Quebec, Nov 1998.

Piette JD, Wagner T, Schillinger D, Potter MB, Jain S, Krahn D. "Medication self-restriction due to cost among diabetes patients in VA and non-VA systems of care." VA HSR&D Annual Meeting, Washington DC, Feb 2003.

Piette JD, Wagner T, Potter MB, Schillinger D. "Health insurance status, medication self-restriction due to cost, and outcomes among diabetes patients in three systems of care". Plenary Presentation. Annual Meeting, Society of General Internal Medicine. Vancouver, B.C. May 2003.

Piette JD, Schillinger T, Potter MB, Wagner T. "Dimensions of patient-provider communication and self-care in an ethnically diverse population" Annual Meeting, Society of General Internal Medicine. Vancouver, B.C. May 2003.

Potter MB, Cauthen B, Frohlich J, Handley M. "A tool to identify medication non-adherence in type 2 diabetic patients using pharmacy claims data", NAPCRG Annual Meeting, Banff Springs, Ablerta, Canada. October, 2003.

Potter MB, Walsh JME "Influenza Vaccination: A Missed Opportunity for Cancer Screening" Presented at the Bay Area Clinical Research Symposium, October, 2004 and at the UCSF Family and Community Medicine Colloquium, October, 2004..

Ong M, Lee D, Potter MB, Feldman M. ÒFinancial Incentives to Treat Depression in Primary CareÓ, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine, Santa Barbara, CA, April 2006.

Sommers L, Potter MB, Handley M. ÒIntegrating Practice Inquiry Groups into a Practice-Based Research NetworkÓ. Presented at the AHRQ Annual Meeting on Practice Based Research Networks, May, 2006.

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