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Christopher Potter, MD
Chief of Neurology, Baptist Medical Center Beaches
Christopher Potter, MD, earned his medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine and interned at St. Vincent Hospitals and Health Services in Indianapolis. He completed a neurology residency at Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, MN, and a neurophysiology fellowship at Mayo Clinic Jacksonville. Dr. Potter is board-certified in neurology with particular interest in nerve and muscle disease.
Specialties
- Neurophysiology
- Neuromuscular disorders
- Electrodiagnostic medicine
Certification
Education
- Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, 1995
- Undergraduate: Indiana University Bloomington, IN, 1985
Training
- Mayo Clinic Jacksonville: Clinical Neurology Fellowship, 1999-2000
- Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, MN: Neurology Residency, 1996-1999
- St. Vincent Hospitals and Health Services, Indianapolis, IN: Preliminary Medicine Internship, 1995-1996
Languages
Insurance Plans accepted
We accept the following insurance plans. If your plan is not listed below, please contact us at 904.376.4400.
- Aetna HMO
- AvMed HMO
- Beechstreet PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield: Blue Care HMO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield: Blue Options HMO
- Cigna
- Evolutions PPO
- First Health/Coventry/Southcare
- Florida health Alliance/Medcom (EPO/PPO)
- Humana HMO
- MDI Healthcare
- Medicare
- One Health/Great West-Cigna
- Prime Corp
- Tricare Standard (Champus)
Publications
- Potter, C. G., Boylan, K. B.: Neurologic paraneoplastic syndromes producing weakness or sensory loss. Jacksonville Medicine 2000, 51(8):350-354.
- Potter, C. G., Peterson, R. G., Maianu, I., Garvey, W. T.: Suppression of glucose uptake in diabetic peripheral nerve. In progress.
- Ochs, S., Jersild, R. A., Jr., Pourmand, R., Potter, C. G.: The beaded form of myelinated nerve fibers. Neuroscience 1994: 61(2) 361-372.
- Potterm C. G., Sharma, A. K., Farber, M. O, Peterson, R. G.: Hypoglycelic neuropathy in experimental diabetes. J Neurol Sci 1988: 8:293-301.
In the news
- Peterson, R. G., Potter, C. G., Ochs, S.: Altered stretch-induced beading in diabetic nerve fibers. International Meeting of Peripheral Nerve Study Group, 1989.
- Potter, C. G., Farber, M. O., Eichberg, J., Peterson, R. G.: The proximodistal and sensorimotor distribution of hypoglycemic neuropathy in insulin-treated experimental diabetes. Diabetes 1989, 38(2), 136a.
- Peterson, R. G., Sharma, A. K., Little, L. A., Neel, M. A., Potter, C. G., Eichberg, J: Peripheral nerve abnormalities in Wistar fatty diabetic rats. In Shafir, E., Renold, A. E., eds. Frontiers in diabetes research. Lessons from animal diabetes II. John Libbey & Company, Ltd., 1987: 488-491.
presentations
- Potter, C. G., Kennelly, K. D., Verino, S., Lennon, V. A., Boylan, K. B.: Peripheral nerve hyperexcitability associated with schwannoma and antibodies to voltage-gated potassium channels. ANA Meeting, Boston, MA, October, 2000.
- Potter, C. G., Peterson, R. G., Maianu, I., Garvey, W. T.: Mechanis,s underlying peripheral nerve glucose uptake suppression in diabetes. Diabetes 1993: 41:22a.
- Potter, C. G., Sharma, A. K., Britland, S. T., Farber, M., Peterson, R. G.: Hypoglycemic neuropathy in experimental diabetes. Anatomical Record 1988: 220:76a.
- Sharma, A. K., Poter, C. G., Malik, R. A. et al: Peripheral neuropathy in spontaneously diabetic dogs: a suitable model of human diabetic neuropathy. Anatomical Record 1988: 220:88A.
