Jeannette M. Potts, M.D.

Glickman Urological Institute
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
9500 Euclid Avenue - A/100
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
pottsj@ccf.org

216-445-7801

Professional Staff, Medical Urologist - 1994 to Present
Glickman Urological Institute
Cleveland Clinic Foundation

Assistant Clinical Professor - 1995 to Present
Department of Family Medicine
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

Part-time Faculty - 1995 to Present
Department of Family Medicine
MetroHealth Medical Center

M.D.: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 1987-1991

B.A. Liberal Arts: Lake Erie College for Women, Painesville, Ohio, 1980-1983

French Language and Civilization: Universite de Caen, Normandy, France, 1983

State Medical Board of Ohio #66717

American Board of Family Practice, 1994

Fellowship:	Urology	Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 1994-1995
Residency:	Family Medicine	Grant Medical Center, 1991-1993
	Family Medicine	MetroHealth Medical Center, 1993-1994

Tango: Lessons for Life, Cleveland Clinic Press, in production.

Potts, editor: GU-IT IS: Comprehensive Overview of Genitourinary and rectal inflammatory and pain syndromes. Humana Press, edit pending.

Potts: Therapeutic options for chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome. Curr Urol Reports, 2005.

Frenkl, Potts: Sexually transmitted infections, Part I and Part II. AUA Update STD's. In press.

Frenkl, Potts: Sexually transmitted and associated diseases. Campbells-Walsh Chapter. In press.

Simardi, Tobias-Machado, Kappaz, Goldenstein, Potts, and Wroclawaki: Influence of asymptomatic histologic prostatitis on serum prostate-specific antigen: a prospective study. Urology 64 (6), 1098-1101, 2004.

Potts (editor). Textbook: Essential office urology. Humana Press, 2004.

Potts: Chronic pelvic pain syndrome: diagnosis and management. Curr Urol Reports, 4: 316-319, 2003.

Potts: Chronic pelvic pain syndrome: a non-prostatocentric perspective. World J Urol 21: 54-56, 2003.

Potts: Prostatitis; Alternative approaches: biofeedback, progressive relaxation and the concept of functional somatic syndromes. European Urol, Suppl, March, 2003.

Potts, Pasqualotto: Seminal oxidative stress and abacterial prostatitis. Andrologia, 35: 1-5, 2003.

Abdelmalak, Potts: Urinary tract infections in adults. December 2002. Available at http://www.clevelandclinicmeded.com/diseasemanagement.

Potts: Diagnosing prostatitis: The dilemma continues. Current Urology Report 3:319-323, 2002

Potts. The four categories of prostatitis: A practical approach to treatment. Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine 68 (5): 389-98, 2001.

Potts: Prospective Identification of NIH-Category IV prostatitis in men with elevated PSA levels. J Urol 164: 1550-1553, 2000.

As member of IPCN, contributed to following publications:

1. J. Urol 162:369-75.
2. Urol 54:229-33

Potts, Ward, Rackley: Association of chronic urinary symptoms in women and ureaplasma urealyticum. Urol, 55(4): 486-89, 2000.

Pasqualotto, Sharma, Potts, Nelson, Thomas, Agarwal: Prostatitis (NIH Category III) is associated with seminal oxidative stress. Urol, 55:881-885, 2000.

Potts. Sexually Transmitted Diseases (chapter). Office Urology. Kursh and Ulchaker, Humana Press, 2000.

Potts, Sharma, Pasqualotto, Nelson, Hall, Agarwal: Association of ureaplasma urealyticum with abnormal reactive oxygen species levels and absence of leukocytospermia. J Urol, 163: 1775-78, June 2000.

Potts, Pasqualotto, Nelson, Thomas, Agarwal: Screening vasectomy candidates for risk of subsequent vasectomy reversal. J Urol, 161:1835, 1999.

Zippe, Pandrangi, Agarwal, Potts, Kursh, Novick. NMP-22: A sensitive, cost-effective test in patients at risk for bladder cancer. Anticancer Research. 19:2621-24, 1999.

Potts (Guest Editor). Urologia Panamericana, October Issue, 1998.

Potts. Evaluacion y Tratamiento de Prostatitis. Urologia Panamericana, October 1998.

Wise, Miller, Potts. Applications of laparoscopic instrumentation to conventional abdominal and rectal surgery. Dis Colon Rectum. 39:1180-1182, 1996.

Potts, Larrimer. Pheochromocytoma in Pregnancy: A case report and review of the literature. Journal of Family Practice, 1994.

Potts et al: Comparison of prostate cancer detection among black and white men in 1990 and in 2000. American Urological Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, April 2003.

Potts et al: Racial differences in PSA levels of patients diagnosed with prostate cancer at our tertiary care center. American Urological Association North Central Section, (Cancun 2001), Chicago, Illinois 2002.

Potts, Fynn, Lutz, Katanic, Nelson, Hall: Ureaplasma urealyticum correlated to symptomology, but not with asymptomatic colonization. American Urological Association North Central Section Meeting, (Cancun 2001), Chicago, Illinois 2002.

Potts, Moritz, Everson, Nelson, Lakin: Chronic abacterial prostatitis: A functional somatic syndrome? American Urological Association, Anaheim California, June 2001.

Potts, Fynn: Patient survey: comparison of treatments for NIH-Category III prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome. 74th Annual AUA North Central Section Meeting, Scottsdale, Arizona, October, 2000.

Potts, Pasqualotto, Sharma, Nelson, Thomas, Agarwal: Semen characteristics of men with NIH Cat III prostatitis. 2nd Annual Meeting of International Prostatitis Collaborative Network, Bethesda, Maryland, November 1999.

Potts, Fynn: Preliminary results of physical therapy for the treatment of NIH-Cat III prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome. 2nd Annual Meeting of International Prostatitis Collaborative Network, Bethesda, Maryland, November 1999.

Potts: Prospective identification of Cat IV prostatitis in men with elevated PSA levels: Histological corroboration and long-term follow up. 2nd Annul Meeting of International Prostatitis Collaborative Network, Bethesda, Maryland, November 1999.

Ulchaker, Montague, Potts, Viga, Kursh: Cleveland Clinic experiences using Prostatron 2.5 for treatment of BPH. American Urological Association North Central Section Meeting, Chicago, Illinois, September, 1999.

Pasqualotto, Sharma, Potts, Agarwal: Prostatitis (NIH Category III) is associated with seminal oxidative stress. American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, September, 1999.

Potts: Deteccion de prostatitis asintomatica en hombres con APE elevado antes de biopsia. Confederacion Americana de Urologia, Quintana Roo, Mexico, November, 1998.

Potts, Pasqualotto, Thomas, Agarwal: Comparacion del costo economico y exito entre la crioperservacion del spermo antes de vasectomia y vasovasostomia. Confederacion Americana de Urologia, Quintana Roo, Mexico, November, 1998.

Potts, Sharma, Pasqualotto, Agarwal: Ureaplasma en hombres esta asociado con niveles altas de especis reactivos de oxigeno y ausencia de leucocitospermia. Confederacion Americana de Urologia, Quintana Roo, Mexico, 1998.

Potts, Sharma, Pasqualotto, Agarwal: Leukocytospermia (Endtz) is unreliable in detecting ureaplasma urealyticum (UU) infections which may impair sperm function. American Urological Association North Central Section, Amelia Island, Florida, October 1998.

Ward, Rackley, Potts: Antimicrobial treatment options when ureaplasma urealyticum persists in symptomatic women. American Urological Association North Central Section, Amelia Island, Florida, October 1998.

Potts: Screening for asymptomatic prostatitis may prevent unnecessary prostate biopsies. American Urological Association North Central Section, Amelia Island, Florida, October 1998.

Potts, Sharma, Pasqualotto, Nelson, Agarwal: Ureaplasma urealyticum infection in men is associated with abnormal seminal ROS and absence of leukocytospermia. CCF Research Day, 1998.

Pasqualotto, Nelson, Thomas, Agarwal, Potts: Screening vasectomy candidate for risk for subsequent vasectomy reversal. American Society of Reproductive Medicine, San Francisco, California, October 1998.

Potts, Sharma, Agarwal: The effects of ureaplasma urealyticum on sperm motion and functional characteristics. American Urologic Association, San Diego, California, 1998.

Ward, Rackley, Potts: The forgotten diagnosis of exclusion for interstitial cystitis: Ureaplasma masquerading as a voiding syndrome. American Urologic Association North Central Section Meeting, Monterrey, California, 1997.

Potts, Rackley: Estrogen replacement therapy in breast cancer survivors: Is it safe? American Urological Association North Central Section Meeting, Monterrey, California, 1997.

Potts, Rackley: Ureaplasma urealyticum in men: A commensal or pathogen? American Urologic Association Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1997.

Potts, Rackley: Ureaplasma urealyticum in urology practice. American Urologic Association North Central Section Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, 1996.

2000, Bruce Hubbard Stewart Fellowship Award recipient

1999, Runner up paper/podium presentation: Screening for asymptomatic prostatitis in men with elevated PSA levels may prevent unnecessary biopsies. American Academy of Family Practice, National Meeting, Orlando, Florida.

1993, First Prize Exhibit: Fine needle aspiration for the family physician. American Academy of Family Practice National Meeting, Orlando, Florida

1989, NIH Grant: The incidence of maternal depression and stressful life events in homogeneous population of Costa Rica. Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio.

1983-84, ITT Fellow for post-graduate study abroad: The mummies of Guanajuato. Guanajuato, Mexico.

1. NIH Grant CPCRN-2, "Treatment of chronic prostatitis and chronic pelvic pain syndrome." Co-Investigator, 2005.
2. NIH Grant R21 AT-02210-02, "Effects of energy healing on prostate cancer." Co-Investigator, 2005.
3. Men's Health Initiative, 2002 (Teachers of Family Medicine)
4. Master Faculty, American Medical Women's Association: Primary Care Education or Overactive Bladder Initiative, 2000.
5. Primary Investigator (site), Multicenter trial, Merck sponsored, "A randomized, placebo-controlled, multicenter study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Rofecoxib in the treatment of chronic nonbacterial prostatitis."
6. Primary Investigator, DOFI sponsored, "Feasibility of ejaculatory ductoscopy: endoscopic characterization of seminal vesicles, ejaculatory ducts and ampulla."
7. Internal Funding, RPC# 5758, "Urinary and anal-sphincter dysfunction associated with vaginal childbirth" Potts, Hull, Ross, Rackley.
8. IRB#1819, approved 1997; Funding RPC#5825 "Effects of mycoplasmas on semen analysis and function of spermatozoa", Potts, Agarwal, Sharma, Hall
9. Pfizer Grant, "Quantitative cultures for ureaplasma urealyticum: Potential differentiation between colonization and infection Potts, Fynn, Hall.
10. American Cancer Society Grant, 1999; IRB# 2213 "Vaginal estrogen replacement therapy in breast cancer survivors" Potts, Overmoyer, Tate, Booher, Thacker, Moore, Rackley

International

Bi-Annual Meeting of the Confederacion Americana de Urologia, The Art of Healing, Recife, Brazil, June 17-23, 2006.

3rd Meeting of the Franco- American Society, Non-urological perspective on CP/CPPS, Atlanta, Georgia, May 20, 2006

LVI Congreso Nacional Sociedad Mexicana le Urologic - Healthy-Spirtual Living with Tango (90 Minutes), November 17, 2005 Veracruz, Mexico

Male Pelvic Floor Panel - International Continence Society - Montreal, Quebec,August 27-31 2005

Resource Consultant - Young Entrepreneur Organization - January, 2005.

Lecturer and Resource Consultant - Young President's Organization - Costa Rica, 2004.

27th Congress of Societe Internacionale d' Urologie, Honolulu, Hawaii, October 3-7, 2004.

Israeli Visiting Professor Program, Cleveland Clinic Foundation/University Hospital, Autumn, 2004.

XXVII Congress of Conferacion Americana de Urologia, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, September 19-23, 2004.

Int'l Prostate Summit, Hospital Alemana, Santiago, Chile, August 27-28, 2004.

International Society of Pelvic Pain, Chicago, Illinois, August 5-7, 2004.

Hospital Patilla, Annual Meeting, Panama City, Panama, July 23-24, 2004.

Venezuelan Urological Society, Barquisimeto, Venezuela, June 11-12, 2004.

Visiting Professor, Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara, August 4-8, 2003.

Break Out Session: Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome. AUA North Central Section, Vancouver BC, September 17, 2003.

XXVIX Meeting of the Brazilian Urological Society, Iguazzu, Brazil, October 25-30, 2003.

Mexican Urological Society, Guadalajara, Jalisco, November, 2002.

International Consensus Conference: Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment of Prostatitis, Geissen, Germany, September, 2002.

European Society of Urological Infection: Geissen, Germany, September, 2002.

Biannual Meeting of the Conferacion Americana de Urologia, Panama City, Panama, September, 2002.

XXVIII Annual Meeting of the Brasilian Urological Society, Fortaleza, Brazil, October, 2001.

Post-Graduate Course during XXVIII Annual Meeting of the Brasilian Urological Society, Fortaleza, Brazil, October, 2001.

XXVIII Annual Meeting of the Brasilian Urological Society, Fortaleza, Brazil, October, 2001

Urologic Society Paulista, Campos, Brazil, May, 2001.

VII Jornada Paulista, Sau Paulo, Brazil, May, 2001.

Annual Conference of Bihar Urological Society, Ranchi, India, October. 13-15, 2000.

Venezuelan Urological Society, Valencia, Venezuela, July, 2000.

Faculty Leader and Guest Lecturer, 18th Urology Congress, Valencia, Venezuela, July, 2000

Scientific Joint Meeting, Guatemala City, Guatemala, May 3, 2000.

Presenter at the inaugural ceremonies of the Instituto Docente de Urologia, Valencia, Venezuela, May, 1998.

National:

Advanced Urology Preceptorship, Glickman Urological Institute, November, 2003.

Lecturer and Resource Consultant, Young President's Organization Faculty/Resource, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, September 17-21, 2003.

Advanced Urology Preceptorship - Advances in Urology Glickman Urological Institute, June, 2003.

Fellowship Speaker - Baylor University - May, 2003.

Cleveland Academy of FP Annual Meeting - February, 2003.

Lecturer and Resource Consultant, Young President's Organization, Breakers, West Palm Beach, Florida, October 2002.

Primary Care Conference, Fairview Hospital, Cleveland, OH, August, 2002.

Society of Urology Nurses Association, Orlando, FL, May, 2002.

Prostate Summit - Cleveland Clinic Foundation - March, 2002.

AUA North Central Section, Chicago, Illinois, January, 2002.

Break-Out Session, North Central Section of the AUA, Annual Meeting, 2001.

Annual Meeting of NEO Radiological Society, Akron, Ohio, May 2001.

Ohio Pharmacists Association Annual Meeting, March 2001.

Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, Cleveland Clinic and satellite transmission presentation, November 16, 2000.

AUA North Central Section, Scottsdale, Arizona November, 2000.

Special Morning Seminar, AUA NCS, Scottsdale, Arizona, October 29, 2000.

Resource Consultant, Young Entrepreneur Organization @NYC, New York City, August, 2000

Guest Lecturer and Resource Consultant, Annual Meeting: The Young Presidents Organization, Alaska, July, 2000

Annual Meeting of Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates, Atlanta, Georgia, May 1, 2000.

Annual Meeting of the Cleveland Academy of Family Medicine, November 10, 1999.

Guest Lecturer and Resource Consultant, Annual Meeting: The Young Presidents Organization, Washington, D.C., October 13-17, 1999.

3rd Annual Meeting: Common Problems in Primary Care, Omni International Hotel, Cleveland, Ohio, June 25, 1999.

Medical Grand Rounds, St. Joseph Medical Center, Youngstown, Ohio, February 1999.

Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates, National Meeting, San Diego, California, 1998.

"Managing Menopause after Cancer," Women's Cancer Survivor Day, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 1997.

"Sexual Harassment in Medicine," Co-presenter with Gary A. Potts, Esquire, Clinical Science Lecture, CWRU School of Medicine, November, 1997.

"Sexual Harassment and Sexual Discrimination in Medicine," Co-presenter with Gary A. Potts, Esquire, Clinical Science Lecture, CWRU School of Medicine, May, 1997.

1. Men's Health Forum, Fairview Hospital, November, 2004.
2. Men's Pelvic Pain, Fairview Hospital, November, 2004.
3. Guest Speaker, Hispanic Convencion's 2004 Health Committee, September, 2004.
4. Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: Prostatitis, November, 2000.
5. Medical Management of Female Voiding Dysfunction," Resident Seminars, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, September 1, 2000.
6. "Benign Prostate Disease," Department Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Noon Conference, February 21, 2000.
7. "GU Infections and Prostatitis," Department of Urology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, July, 1999.
8. "Evaluation and Medical Management of Benign Prostate Disease," Akron, Ohio, May 1999.
9. "Prostatitis and Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome," Internal Medicine Grand Rounds, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, May, 1999.
10. "Benign Prostate Disease," Primary Care Medicine Forum, Ashtabula, Ohio, February 1999.
11. "Ureaplasma Urealyticum and the Genito-Urinary Tract", Infectious Disease Grand Rounds, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Infectious Disease Department, February 3, 1999.
12. "Medical Management of Female Voiding Dysfunction," Department of Urology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, October 1998
13. "Evaluation and Medical Management of Benign Prostate Disease," Department of Urology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, September 1998.
14. "Genitourinary infections in the outpatient setting," Department of Urology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, July 1998.
15. "Prostate Health: Prostatitis, BPH, Cancer", OASIS Community Health Seminar, March 10 and March 27, 1998.
16. "Differential Diagnosis and Medical Management of BPH," Primary Care/Urologic Conference, Akron, Ohio, 1997
17. "Mycoplasma, Infertility and General Urology Patients," Andrology in Service Seminar, Cleveland Clinic, 1997.
18. "Differential Diagnosis and Medical Management of BPH," Primary Care/Urologic Conference, Warren, Ohio, 1997.
19. "Diagnosis and Treatment of Sexually Transmitted Diseases," Department of Urology Teaching Conference, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 1997.
20. "Practical Urodynamics," Family Medicine Conference, MetroHealth, Cleveland, Ohio, 1997.
21. "Medical Management of BPH," Primary care/urology conference, Downtown Cleveland, Ohio, 1997.
22. "Medicina Preventiva Para la Mujer," Hispanic Community Program, St. Mary Parish, Painesville, Ohio, 1997.
23. "Gender Issues in Medicine," panelist for Noon Option, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 1997.
24. "Emerging Rationale for the Use of Alpha Blockers," sponsored by Pfizer, 1996.
25. "Prostate Health: BPH," Family Medicine Conference, MetroHealth, Cleveland, Ohio, 1996.
26. "Thyroid Disease: Evaluation and differential diagnosis," Family Medicine Conference, MetroHealth, Cleveland, Ohio, 1994.
27. "Fine needle aspiration technique workshop," Department. of Family Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, 1994.
28. "Las Momias de Guanajuato," Noon Conference, Grant Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio, 1993.