Jeff Potts received his Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education (1982) from the University of New Brunswick, his hometown, and a Masters of Arts degree in Exercise Science from Indiana State University in Terre Haute, Indiana. In 1986 he entered the PhD program in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, but moved to join Peter Raven’s research program, obtaining a PhD (1993) in Biomedical Sciences (Physiology). Focussing on the carotid arterial baroreflex, he published work in the American Journal of Physiology and developed the ‘built curve’ technique of modelling the carotid baroreflex. With a postdoctoral fellowship, he then joined Artin Shoukas in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to study the role of arterial compliance and venous resistance on the carotid baroreflex control of the circulation. Subsequently, at UT Southwestern Medical Center (UTSWMC) in Dallas, he worked with with Jere H. Mitchell MD and with Julian Paton, publishing several important papers identifying the neurotransmitters within the brainstem medullary centres involved in baroreflex and exercise pressor reflex control (1995-2000).

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