Lucy Potter, MD, MPH
Department of General Internal Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Affiliate Clinical Assistant Professor, Texas A&M University - Vashisht College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment
Assistant Professor, General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2017 | Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, US, Medicine, Doctorate of Medicine |
| 2012 | Rice University, Houston, TX, US, Managerial Studies, Bachelor of Arts |
| 2012 | Rice University, Houston, TX, US, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Bachelor of Science |
| 2020 | UTHealth School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, US, Epidemiology, Data Science, Master of Public Health |
Postgraduate Training
| 2024-null | ACP Guided Fellowship, Internal Medicine, American College of Physicians, Houston, Texas |
| 2020-2023 | Resident Physician, Internal Medicine, The University of Nevada-Reno, Reno, Nevada |
Licenses & Certifications
| 2025 | Alabama Board of Medical Examiners |
| 2024 | Florida Board of Medicine |
| 2024 | Georgia Composite Medical Board |
| 2024 | Washington State Department of Health |
| 2024 | Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure |
| 2024 | Arizona Board of Medical Examiners |
| 2024 | Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners |
| 2024 | Oklahoma State Board of Medical Licensure |
| 2024 | Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners |
| 2024 | American Board of Internal Medicine |
| 2022 | Texas Medical Board |
Experience & Service
Faculty Academic Appointments
Instructor, General Internal Medicine, Internal medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, 2023 - 2025
Administrative Appointments/Responsibilities
Director, General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, 2024 - Present
Intramural Institutional Committee Activities
Co-Chair, Division of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds Committee, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2025 - Present
Member, Junior Faculty Committee, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2024 - Present
Member, Division of Internal Medicine Research Committee, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 2024 - Present
Honors & Awards
| 2025 | Top 1% of Providers, Press Ganey |
| 2023 | Resident of the Year, University of Nevada-Reno |
| 2020 | Delta Omega Honorary Society of Public Health, UTHealth School of Public Health |
| 2019 | Best in Congress Poster Award, American Transplant Congress |
| 2012 | Clark P. Read Award for Excellence in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Rice University |
| 2012 | Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, Rice University |
| 2012 | Magna Cum Laude, Rice University |
| 2008 - 2012 | Rice-Baylor Baccalaureate-MD Medical Scholar, Rice University + Baylor College of Medicine |
Professional Memberships
Selected Presentations & Talks
Local Presentations
- 2026. Cancer-Related Fatigue: Updates and Highlights. Invited. Division of Internal Medicine Grand Rounds. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2026. Cancer-Related Fatigue During Treatment with Neoadjuvant and/or Adjuvant Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Poster. Division of Internal Medicine Research Retreat. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2026. From Meigs Syndrome to Bilateral Breast Cancer: Triple Negative and Triple Positive. Poster. Division of Internal Medicine Research Retreat. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2025. The Fatigue of Immunotherapy: Systematic Review. Poster. Division of Internal Medicine Research Retreat. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2025. The Fatigue of Immunotherapy. Poster. Cancer Survivorship Retreat. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2024. Burkitt's Lymphoma and Atrial Fibrillation - An Unconventional Encounter. Poster. Division of Internal Medicine Research Retreat & Poster Session. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2023. Maximizing Time Efficiency to Improve Patient Visit Satisfaction and Value in the Ambulatory Clinic Setting. Poster. Goodman Research Day, University of Nevada-Reno School of Medicine, Reno, Nevada, Nevada, US.
- 2021. Severe COVID-19 Vaccine Complications: A Case of Central Nervous System Demyelination. Poster. Nevada American College of Physicians Chapter Abstracts Competition, Reno, NV, US.
- 2020. The Health Behaviors of the Caregivers of Pancreas-Kidney Transplant Recipient Patients. Poster. Annual School of Public Health Research Day, US.
- 2019. Student Practicum Panel. Invited. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2018. Ordering unindicated lumbar MRIs for low back pain? Ethical arguments to resist the temptation. Poster. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2014. The Next Generation of Global Health Education: Introducing the Interdisciplinary Health Network. Poster. Connect Conference of 2014 of the Houston Global Health Collaborative, Houston, TX. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2014. An Interdiscplinary Approach to Global Health Education. Invited. Connect Conference 2014. Houston, Texas, US.
- 2012. Priority effects in experimental communities: Disentangling the roles of habitat quality and density. Poster. Rice Undergraduate Research Symposium. Houston, Texas, US.
Regional Presentations
- 2019. Kidney Transplants Following Donation after Circulatory Death and Donation After Brain Death Have Similar Early Outcomes. Conference. Austin, Texas, US.
National Presentations
- 2020. Is Bariatric Surgery Feasible in the Setting of Liver and Kidney Transplants?. Poster. American Society of Transplant Surgeons 20th Annual State of the Art Winter Symposium. Miami, Florida, US.
- 2019. Is Bariatric Surgery Feasible in the Setting of Liver and Kidney Transplants?. Poster. American Transplant Congress. Boston, Massachusetts, US.
International Presentations
- 2026. Incidence of Cancer-Related Fatigue During Treatment with Neoadjuvant and Adjuvant Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Poster. MASCC/ISOO Annual Meeting 2026. Melbourne, AU.
- 2025. The Fatigue of Immunotherapy: A Systematic Review. Poster. MASCC/ISOO 2025 Annual Meeting. Seattle, US.
- 2025. Treatment of Cancer-Related Fatigue in a Comprehensive Cancer Center: Two Decades of Experience. Poster. MASCC/ISOO 2025 Annual Meeting. Seattle, US.
- 2019. The Natural History of Metastatic Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Poster. European Society of Transplantation 2019 Conference. Copenhagen, DK.
- 2019. Diamond in the Rough: Successful Utilization of Dual Kidneys in an Unusual Extended Criteria Donor. Poster. European Society of Transplantation 2019. Copenhagen, DK.
- 2007. Changes in mammary gland expression of cell cycle, apoptosis, and immune response genes accompany progression through a prolonged lactation cycle of the mouse. Poster. 4th Annual International Milk Genomics Consortium, CA.
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Escalante CE, Potter LM, Bassaragh A, Manzullo E. Review of a High-Resourced Cancer-Related Fatigue Clinic and Considerations in Lower-Resourced Environments. Supportive Cancer Care 33:1007, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 41175230.
- Tariq N, Saharia A, Nwokedi U, Hobeika MJ, Mobley CM, Hsu D, Potter LM, Moore LW, Elaileh A, Sherman V, Ghobrial RM. Combined liver transplantation and sleeve gastrectomy: Report of a brief-interval staged approach. Liver Transpl 29(4):422-430, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 35976078.
Review Articles
- Saharia A, Potter LM, Baio F, Elaileh A, Mobley C, Ghobrial RM, Abdelrahim M, Heyne K. Is Surgery-first Still a Reasonable Option in the Era of Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy for Resectable Pancreatic Cancer?. Am J Clin Oncol 43(4):298-304, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 31895096.
- Elaileh A, Saharia A, Potter LM, Flavio B, Ghafel A, Abdelrahim M, Heyne K. Promising new treatments for pancreatic cancer in the era of targeted and immune therapies. Am J Cancer Res 9(9):1871-1888, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31598392.
Other Articles
- Potter L, Lopez-Olivo, MA, Uppal RS, Beeler D, Thong MSY, Phan B, Chou YJ, Krause, Tanveer A, Ul Hussain H, Khan M, Abdel-Wahab N, Manzullo E, Kleckner A, Escalante CE Cancer-related fatigue during treatment with neoadjuvant and/or adjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitors: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Support Cancer Care 34(829), 2026.
Editorials
- Kleckner AS, Agbejule OA, Al-Harrasi A, Escalante CP, Keane P, Lin P-J, Molassiotis A, Mustian KM, Potter L, Prue G, Singh Uppal R, Whitehead M, Hart N. Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) Endorsement and Global Perspectives on Implementation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology and Society of Integrative Oncology (ASCO-SIO) Fatigue in Adult Cancer Survivors Guideline. Supportive Cancer Care 34, 2026. PMID: 42268440.
Abstracts
- Potter LM, Maria-Angeles Lopez-Olivo, Rajdeep Singh Uppal, Dori Beeler, Melissa SY Thong, Brandy Phan, Yun-Jen Chou, Kate Krause, Areesha Tanveer, Hassan Ul Hussain, Muaaz Khan, Noha Abdel-Wahab, Ellen Manzullo, Amber Kleckner, Carmen Escalante. Incidence of Cancer-related fatigue during treatment with neoadjuvant and adjuvant immune checkpoint inhibitors: a systematic review and meta-analysis. MASCC 34(586):586, 2026. e-Pub 2026.
- Potter LM, Beeler D, Thong M, Singh Uppal R, Chow YJ, Kleckner A, Hart N, Phan B, Abdel-Wahab N, Krause K, Manzullo E, Escalante CE. The Fatigue of Immunotherapy: A Comprehensive Review. MASCC/ISOO 2025 Annual Meeting, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40515872.
- Potter L, Manzullo E, Bassaragh A, Escalante CE. Treatment of Cancer-Related Fatigue in a Comprehensive Cancer Center: Two Decades of Experience. MASCC/ISOO 2025 Annual Meeting, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40515872.
Letters to the Editor
- Saharia A, Potter LM, Baio F, Abdelrahim M, Heyne K. Commentary on Neoadjuvant Versus Surgery First Approach in Resectable Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma. Am J Clin Oncol 43: 753-754, 2020.
Web Publications
- Potter LM. We are sheltered from global health diseases, 2013.
Patient Reviews
CV information above last modified August 31, 2026