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Elisabeth Potter, MD

Board-certified Plastic Surgeon in Private Practice, Austin, Texas

Elisabeth Potter

Highlights

  • LBBC Medical Advisory Board member since 2023
  • Reconstructive surgeon who has performed over 1,000 DIEP flap surgeries
  • Advocate for insurance coverage of reconstructive flap surgeries

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Elisabeth Potter, MD, is a board-certified plastic surgeon in Austin, Texas. She specializes in natural breast reconstruction and has performed over 1,000 DIEP flap surgeries using patients’ natural fat and tissue. Her practice also offers reconstruction with breast implants.

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Believing that all reconstruction options, including DIEP flap, should be accessible to breast cancer patients and previvors seeking reconstruction, Dr. Potter founded her nonprofit, Community Breast Reconstruction Alliance, which lobbies and advocates for access to all breast reconstruction options through insurance. Through her nonprofit, Dr. Potter has successfully restored needed insurance codes that provide increased access to advanced natural-tissue reconstruction.

Before going into private practice, Dr. Potter worked as a regulatory analyst of FDA law. She possesses a uniquely informed view regarding the safety and efficacy of breast implants. Because of her expertise in natural breast reconstruction, she continues to monitor recent research developments regarding the increase in cases of breast implant-associated anaplastic large cell lymphoma (BIA-ALCL).

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Experience & accolades

Expertise

  • Breast reconstruction
  • Plastic surgery

Education

  • Emory University School of Medicine
    • Doctor of medicine
  • Princeton University
    • Bachelors of molecular biology

Experience

  • Community Breast Reconstruction Alliance (2022-Present)
    • Founder
  • Elisabeth Potter, MD Private Practice (2014-Present)
    • Plastic and reconstructive surgeon
  • Institute of Reconstructive Surgery of Central Texas (2013)
    • Plastic surgeon
  • MD Anderson Cancer Center (2012-2013)
    • Fellow, reconstructive plastic surgery and microsurgery
  • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (2007-2012)
    • Integrated residency, plastic surgery

Awards & distinctions

  • Austin’s Top Doctors, 2019

Professional memberships & board positions

  • American Society of Plastic Surgeons

Publications

“The Role of Silicone Granulomas in Recurrent Capsular Contracture,” Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, 2013

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Contributions

DIEP flap

10/03/23 | BY: Jonathan Bank, Elisabeth Potter

Deep inferior epigastric artery perforator (DIEP) flap is one of several free flap abdominal tissue transfer procedures that use skin, fat and blood vessels from the lower abdomen, which avoids weakening abdominal muscles and lowers hernia risk.

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