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Vice President for Research
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Expertise: prevention and treatment of substance use disorders, chronic pain, dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practice, population health, clinical trials
Jennifer Sharpe Potter, PhD, MPH, is the Vice President for Research and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavior Sciences. In 2008, Dr. Potter joined UT Health San Antonio from Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital. She completed her pre-doctoral clinical internship and research fellowship at Harvard Medical School/McLean Hospital. She received her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Georgia and her Master of Public Health from Emory University.
Dr. Potters research and related activities focus on the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders, with emphasis on opioid use disorders and chronic pain in civilian and military populations. She is a Principal Investigator of the Big South/West Node of the National Institute on Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network and Director of the Texas Medication for Opioid Use Disorder Initiative with support from the Texas Health and Human Services Commission. Dr. Potter served as the National Project Director for the CTN Prescription Opioid Addiction Treatment Study (POATS), the largest multisite clinical trial conducted to examine treatment of prescription opioid dependence.
UM1 DA049394 Rick Williams (PI) 06/2019 - 03/2023
HEALing Communities Study: Data Coordinating Center
Role: Senior Advisor
P30 CA054174 Ruben Mesa (PI)
Cancer Therapy and Research Center at UTHSCSA 01/2019 – 12/2019
Role: Internal Advisory Committee
T32 DA031115-02 Charles France (PI) 07/2013 - 07/2021
Training in Drug Abuse Research: Behavior and Neurobiology
Role: Mentor and Internal Advisory Committee
K12 GM111726 James Lechleither (PI) 05/2020 – 04/2025
San Antonio Biomedical Education and Research Postdoctoral Teaching and Research Training Program
Role: Internal Advisory Committee
W81XWH-15-2-0077 Rick Williams (PI) 09/2018 – 08/2023
Pharmacotherapies for Alcohol and Substance Abuse (PASA) Consortium
Role: Co-Investigator
Grand Rounds Committee