Dr. James Potash, MD
Psychiatrist | Psychiatry
200 Hawkins Dr Iowa City IA, 52242About
Dr. Potash has been the Henry Phipps Professor, Director of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Psychiatrist-in-Chief, at Johns Hopkins since 2017. Before that he was Chair and Department Executive Officer of the University of Iowa Department of Psychiatry for six years. Dr. Potash graduated from Yale College. Following graduation, he served in the Peace Corps in the West African country of Senegal. He completed his master’s degree in public health at Johns Hopkins, and then went on to medical school at Hopkins, medical internship at Hopkins Bayview, and a year working as a general practitioner in another West African country, Benin. He returned to do his psychiatry residency at Hopkins. He became the Mood Disorders Center research director before moving to Iowa. Dr. Potash’s work has focused on investigation of the genetic and epigenetic basis of depression and bipolar disorder. These efforts have resulted in over 215 publications and 20 years of consistent NIH funding. Dr. Potash serves as Treasurer for the International Society for Psychiatric Genetics and has been a member of the Council on Research of the American Psychiatric Association. In addition to his research endeavors, Dr. Potash is also an active clinician who sees patients with depression and bipolar disorder. He does this in the inpatient and outpatient setting, and also in the mood disorders consultation clinic.
Education and Training
Johns Hopkins Univ Sch of Med, Baltimore Md 1993
Board Certification
Psychiatry and NeurologyAmerican Board of Psychiatry and NeurologyABPN
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Delirium from baclofen withdrawal after suicide attempt.
- Combined analysis from eleven linkage studies of bipolar disorder provides strong evidence of susceptibility loci on chromosomes 6q and 8q.
- Psychiatric genetics: into the 21st century.
- Relationship between cortisol responses to stress and personality.
- Carving chaos: genetics and the classification of mood and psychotic syndromes.
- Familial aggregation of illness chronicity in recurrent, early-onset major depression pedigrees.
- Reproductive cycle-associated mood symptoms in women with major depression and bipolar disorder.
- Attempted suicide in bipolar disorder pedigrees: evidence for linkage to 2p12.
- A comparison of the familiality of chronic depression in recurrent early-onset depression pedigrees using different definitions of chronicity.
- Mood-incongruent psychotic features in bipolar disorder: familial aggregation and suggestive linkage to 2p11-q14 and 13q21-33.
- Investigating the role of p11 (S100A10) sequence variation in susceptibility to major depression.
- QuickSNP: an automated web server for selection of tagSNPs.
- Psychotic features in bipolar and unipolar depression.
- Familial aggregation of postpartum mood symptoms in bipolar disorder pedigrees.
- The genetics of psychotic bipolar disorder.
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