Jennifer Sharpe Potter, PhD, MPH
Senior Vice President for Research, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Founding Director of the Be Well Institute on Substance Use and Related Disorders at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Dr. Potter serves as a principal investigator (MPI) of the Institute for Integration of Medicine and Science (IIMS), home to UT Health San Antonio’s NIH-supported Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA) and the Peer Recovery Innovation Network (PRIN), a National Institutes on Drug Abuse (NIDA) funded initiative to build and expand the field of recovery science. Dr. Potter has been part of major studies that have transformed treatments for substance use disorders including the NIAAA-supported COMBINE study, NIMH-supported Project LIGHT, and the NIDA-supported POATS trials.
As Founding Director of the Be Well Institute on Substance Use and Related Disorders, Dr. Potter oversees a comprehensive statewide system of care to increase access to evidence-based substance use services in Texas. Programs include the Be Well Texas Provider Network of over 150 providers, the Be Well Clinic that provides telehealth and in person services statewide, the Center for Substance Use Training and Telementoring, and the Texas Substance Use Symposium, now the largest substance use related conference in Texas.
Prior to joining UT Health San Antonio in 2008, Dr. Potter was with Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, and received her doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Georgia and her Master of Public Health from Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.