Hollis Potter, MD
Chairman, Dept of Rad/Imaging
The Coleman Chair, MRI Research
Hospital for Special Surgery
New York, NY
Member Since: 1996
How has the AAOS helped you throughout your career?
Early in my career, I was involved in multiple instructional courses through the AAOS, which provided an amazing opportunity for me to interact and learn from senior orthopaedic surgeons in the field, allowing me to recognize unmet needs in imaging and particularly, in MRI.
As an Allied member, which AAOS resources do you use most and why?
Most frequently, email correspondence and educational updates.
What’s the best advice you were ever given? Who was it from?
Drs. Russell Warren, Eduardo Salvati, and Evan Flatow encouraged me early in my career to continue to develop MRI and not to accept traditional dogma when things were not thought to be feasible, such as the use of MRI to reliably assess articular cartilage and to evaluate complications of joint arthroplasty
What’s your go-to productivity trick?
Start work early before the ORs open (!), daily sessions on the elliptical trainer, and lots of black coffee.
What’s one thing you’re currently trying to make a habit of?
Down time.
What hobbies do you enjoy in your spare time?
Snorkeling, scuba diving, downhill skiing, and most recently, pickleball.
Tell us a fun fact about yourself that not many people know?
Before medical school, I was a commercial lobsterman.