Michael Potter, MD

Professor,
Family Community Medicine
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Dr. Michael Potter is a family physician and researcher in the UCSDF School of Medicine's Department of Family and Community Medicine. Dr. Potter is director of the San Francisco Bay Collaborative Research Network (SFBayCRN) and the San Francisco Bay Cohort Discovery Network (SCORE), primary care practice-based research networks that supported by the UCSF Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. He also directs CTSI's Research Infrastructure Network and Team Science Programs. In his own research, Dr. Potter focuses on the development and evaluation of primary care interventions that increase access to essential preventive services and chronic illness care. He is also a member of UCSF's Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and UCSF's Global Cancer Program, providing leadership for initiatives related to colorectal cancer screening. Dr. Potter is a graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, the UCSF Family Medicine Residency Program at San Francisco General Hospital, and UCSF's Advanced Training in Clinical Research Fellowship. He has been a member of the UCSF faculty since 1994 and became emeritus faculty in 2026.

Publications

Untitled Publication

Salud Pública de México

Manzano-Robleda MDC, Espinosa-Tamez P, Potter MB, Hernández-Guerrero A, Van Loon K, Unger-Saldaña K

Untitled Publication

Salud Pública de México

Van Loon K, Mohar A, Unger-Saldaña K, Potter MB, Sweet-Cordero EA, Breithaupt L, Espinosa-Tamez P, Sepúlveda-Amor J, Lajous M

Electronic Health Record-Embedded Individualized Pain Plans for Emergency Department Treatment of Vaso-occlusive Episodes in Adults With Sickle Cell Disease: Protocol for a Preimplementation and Postimplementation Study.

JMIR research protocols

Luo L, King AA, Carroll Y, Baumann AA, Brambilla D, Carpenter CR, Colla J, Gibson RW, Gollan S, Hall G, Klesges L, Kutlar A, Lyon M, Melvin CL, Norell S, Mueller M, Potter MB, Richesson R, Richardson LD, Ryan G, Siewny L, Treadwell M, Zun L, Armstrong-Brown J, Cox L, Tanabe P