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Joel Potash

Joel Potash, M.D., is Professor Emeritus of the Center for Bioethics and Humanities.  He is also Clinical Professor (voluntary) in the Department of Family Medicine.  He sits on the University Hospital Ethics Committee and serves on its Ethics Consultation Service.

Dr. Potash practiced family medicine in Cazenovia from 1966 to 1975.  He served fulltime on the faculty of Upstate's Department of Family Medicine from 1975 until his retirement in 1993.  In addition, he was medical director of the Hospice of Central New York from 1989 to 2001 and has practiced medicine at the Onondaga Nation Health Center for more than two decades.

Dr. Potash taught Dying and Death in American Literature, and AIDS in American Literature with Deirdre Neilen for the Consortium for Culture and Medicine. He is a faculty tutor for medical students in the Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Medicine component of the Practice of Medicine course.  In spring 2008, he will offer an honors elective in contemporary issues in health care with Samuel Gorovitz at Syracuse University.  He is an EPEC trainer (Education of Physicians in End-Of-Life-Care) for the American Medical Association and co-author of a chapter on Palliative Care in the seminal textbook, Primary Care Geriatrics.

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