Jennifer Potter is Co-Chair of The Fenway Institute, Acting Director of its Division of Education and Training, and principal investigator of the National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center, a HRSA-funded cooperative agreement to improve health care for LGBTQIA+ people at health centers.
Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS), Dr. Potter co-directs two longitudinal curricular themes focused on sexual and gender minority health equity and trauma-informed care. In addition, she serves as Advisory Dean of the William Bosworth Castle Society and Director of Student Well-Being Services in the Office of Student Affairs, providing academic, career, and personal support to students throughout their tenure at the medical school.
Dr. Potter is a staff physician in the Division of General Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), where she founded a primary care clinic dedicated to caring for sexual minority women and cancer survivors.
She received her medical degree at Harvard Medical School and completed her internal medicine residency at New England Deaconess Hospital, where she served as Chief Resident.
Dr. Potter was awarded the Fenway Community Health Susan M. Love Award, the BIDMC Lesbian and Gay Achievement Award, the HMS Daniel D. Federman Outstanding Clinician Educator Award, the HMS Harold Amos Diversity Award, HMS Class of 2019 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, HMS Class of 2020 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, the HMS Scholarly Engagement Excellence in Student Mentoring Award, the Massachusetts Medical Society LGBTQ Health Award, and the Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Women in Medicine and Science Individual Leadership Award.
She has authored over 150 research articles, review articles, book chapters, and medical education curricula on topics that include trauma-informed care, intimate partner violence screening, tailoring cancer screening for LGBTQIA+ communities, and caring for the needs of cancer survivors. She is co-editor of the textbooks, The Fenway Guide to LGBT Health, published by the American College of Physicians; Trauma, Resilience and Health Promotion in LGBT Patients, published by Springer; and Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Care: The Fenway Guide, published by McGraw Hill.
