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Dr. John T. Potts is the Distinguished Jackson Professor of Clinical Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). After his MD from the University of Pennsylvania, he did his internship and residency at the MGH from 1957 to 1959, and then went to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to work with Nobel Laureate Christian Anfinsen in protein chemistry. He remained at the NIH from 1959 to 1968, when he returned to the MGH as Chief of the Endocrine Unit. He served as Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Physician-In-Chief from 1981 to 1996, and as Director of Research from 1996 to 2004. He does basic and clinical research on mineral ions and bone, especially parathyroid hormone. The author of over 500 scientific publications, Dr. Potts is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.