Overview
Dr. Potter is a native of Fort Washington, MD, and attended Columbia University where he earned his B.A. degree with dual majors in Pre-Medical Studies and Art History. He later graduated from Howard University College of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency at Howard University Hospital before pursuing his rheumatology fellowship at New York University. Between medical school and his internship/residency, he spent a year at the National Institutes of Health as a recipient of an Intramural Research Training Award.
Following his fellowship, Dr. Potter was appointed to the Rheumatology faculty at the University of Virginia as an Assistant Clinical Professor. There, he helped to establish a curriculum for musculoskeletal ultrasound for training fellows and gave several presentations on topics including rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory myositis, and systemic lupus erythematosus. He participates annually as a question writer for the American College of Rheumatology’s Continuing Medical Education Program.
Dr. Potter has received multiple scholarships and awards throughout his academic and medical careers, including the ACR REF/Amgen/Pfizer Rheumatology Fellowship Training Award, Teaching Resident of the Year, Intramural Research Training Award, Dr. Emile C. Nash Award, and Internal Medicine Departmental Award. He has been first author and co-author of several peer-reviewed articles, largely focusing on disparities in U.S. Healthcare.
Dr. Potter is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Interstitial Keratitis. His top areas of expertise are Postmenopausal Osteoporosis, Osteoporosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), and Tenosynovitis.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 3 peer reviewed articles and participating in 3 clinical trials. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years.
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Locations
18111 Prince Phillip Dr, Suite 323, Olney, MD 20832
2730 University Blvd West, Ste 310, Wheaton, MD 20902
Additional Areas of Focus
Dr. Potter has provided the following conditions as areas of focus. Please note that we may not have enough data to validate their experience in some of these conditions.
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
3 Clinical Trials
Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center
Dr. Alan Baer graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1978 and completed his post-graduate medical training in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at the Johns Hopkins and Vanderbilt University Hospitals. He was a faculty member at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York, from 1986 to 2007, and served there as Chief of the Section of Rheumatology and Fellowship Program Director. He joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins in 2007 and is currently Professor of Medicine and Director of the Jerome L. Greene Sjogren's Syndrome Center. Since 2015, he has been an Investigator in the Sjogren's Syndrome Clinic at the National Institutes of Health. He was Chief of Rheumatology and Clinical Director of the Johns Hopkins University Rheumatology Practice at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland from 2007 to 2014. Dr. Baer is currently engaged in a number of research studies in the area of Sjogren's syndrome, both at Johns Hopkins and in the NIH Sjogren's Syndrome Clinic. He was the principal investigator of the NIH subcontract to Johns Hopkins to conduct the Sjogren's International Registry (SICCA) and enrolled 300 patients into the registry. The SICCA registry has been a rich source of clinical data and biospecimens for research that Dr. Baer is conducting with colleagues at both Hopkins and the University of California-San Francisco. He is conducting a longitudinal observational study of patients with Sjogren's syndrome. Dr. Baer is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Interstitial Keratitis. His top areas of expertise are Sjogren Syndrome, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Arthritis, and Interstitial Keratitis.
Inova Health Care Services
Yingxue Zhang is a Rheumatologist in Falls Church, Virginia. Dr. Zhang is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Interstitial Keratitis. Her top areas of expertise are Interstitial Keratitis, Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Sjogren Syndrome, and Osteoporosis. Dr. Zhang is currently accepting new patients.
Rheumatology Associates Of Baltimore LLC
Howard Hauptman is a Rheumatologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Hauptman has been practicing medicine for over 44 years and is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Interstitial Keratitis. His top areas of expertise are Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Rhizomelic Pseudopolyarthritis, Sjogren Syndrome, and Polymyalgia Rheumatica. Dr. Hauptman is currently accepting new patients.
Areas of Expertise
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- Distinguished
- GoutDr. Potter isDistinguished. Learn about Gout.
- OsteoporosisDr. Potter isDistinguished. Learn about Osteoporosis.
- Postmenopausal OsteoporosisDr. Potter isDistinguished. Learn about Postmenopausal Osteoporosis.
- Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA)Dr. Potter isDistinguished. Learn about Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA).
- TenosynovitisDr. Potter isDistinguished. Learn about Tenosynovitis.
- Advanced
- BursitisDr. Potter isAdvanced. Learn about Bursitis.
- Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA, Churg-Strauss Syndrome)
- Interstitial KeratitisDr. Potter isAdvanced. Learn about Interstitial Keratitis.
- PsoriasisDr. Potter isAdvanced. Learn about Psoriasis.
- Psoriatic ArthritisDr. Potter isAdvanced. Learn about Psoriatic Arthritis.
- Sjogren SyndromeDr. Potter isAdvanced. Learn about Sjogren Syndrome.
- Experienced
- Adult Still's DiseaseDr. Potter isExperienced. Learn about Adult Still's Disease.
- Ankylosing SpondylitisDr. Potter isExperienced. Learn about Ankylosing Spondylitis.
- ArthritisDr. Potter isExperienced. Learn about Arthritis.
- Axial Spondyloarthritis (AxSpA)Dr. Potter isExperienced. Learn about Axial Spondyloarthritis (AxSpA).
- Behcet DiseaseDr. Potter isExperienced. Learn about Behcet Disease.
- Calcium Pyrophosphate ArthritisDr. Potter isExperienced. Learn about Calcium Pyrophosphate Arthritis.