Geoffrey Potts, M.D. '11

Geoffrey Potts, M.D., a 2011 graduate of the Wayne State University School of Medicine, practices in Dearborn and Troy.

Since 2017, he has served as a member of the Dermatology core faculty as a clinician educator, and since 2019 as associate residency program director. He was awarded WSU dermatology residency core faculty of the year award in 2020, 2023 and 2024. He received the WSU School of Medicine College Teaching Award in 2021 and the Dermatology Interest Group Association Faculty Mentor Award in 2022.

A member of the Arnold P. Gold Humanism Honor Society since 2024, Dr. Potts chairs the WSU School of Medicine Clinical Affairs Committee. He also serves on the  Wayne Health Retirement Committee and the Wayne Health Revenue Cycle Committee.

He received his bachelor’s degree from Oakland University in 2007and after graduating from the WSU School of Medicine completed an Internal Medicine internship at St. John Hospital, a dermatology research fellowship at St. Louis University and in 2017 a Dermatology residency  at the School of Medicine.

Dr. Potts performs clinical trials within the Department of Dermatology, has a combined rheumatology-dermatology clinic and has a special interest in complex medical dermatology and hyperhidrosis. He is the father of three daughters, ages 14, 11 and 8.