Dr. Potts received a BA degree from the University of Missouri at Columbia in Columbia, Missouri and his MD degree from Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina.  He completed his residency at the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is board certified in Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Potts has been a practicing physician with Eastern Carolina Emergency Physicians since 1998, and his primary practice location is New Hanover Regional Medical Center, here in Wilmington.