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John F. Potter, first director of Georgetown’s Lombardi Cancer Center, dies at 95
Matt Schudel
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Dr. John F. Potter.
John F. Potter, a surgical oncologist and longtime medical school professor who was the founding director of the Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, died June 29 at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, where he worked and taught for decades. He was 95.
The cause was pneumonitis, said his daughter Tanya Potter Adler.
Dr. Potter began his medical studies at Georgetown shortly after World War II and, except for brief periods, was associated with the university for more than 60 years.
In 1970, he became the first director of Georgetown’s cancer center, which was later named for football coach Vince Lombardi, who died that year of colorectal cancer. Dr. Potter was among the physicians treating Lombardi at Georgetown University Hospital. ....

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