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About Me
Laura Mintz, MD, PhD is a primary care physician scientist who focuses her clinical and research work on the health of LGBTQAI+ Primary Care. She is a graduate of the MetroHealth med-peds residency program. She came to medicine from a career in public health and community organizing focused on HIV, incarceration and the sex trade and street economies. Her current research is focused on transitions of care for sex and gender minority (SGM) persons, inclusion of trans and gender expansive communities in large database studies, chronic pain in SGM persons, leadership in medicine, and expansion of SGM community concerns in medical education. She’s an avid knitter, cook and forager.
Dr. Mintz (they/she) is an Internal medicine-pediatrics clinician scientist focused on clinical care, teaching, and community led health services research. Their research focuses on sexual and gender minority communities living at multiple axes of marginalization. They came to medicine from a career in organizing and public health focused on the intersection of HIV prevention, liberatory harm reduction, violence against women and queer people, prison abolition and support of incarcerated persons, and organizing for and by BIPOC youth in the sex trade and street economies and bring the full breadth of both formal and informal experience to research and clinical practice.
PUBLICATIONS
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/laura.mintz.1/bibliography/public/
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS
American College of Physicians
American Academy of Pediatrics
American Academy of HIV Medicine
World Professional Association for Transgender Health
SPECIFIC RESEARCH INTERESTS
Health outcomes in multiply marginalized LGBTQIA+ communities
Education & Training
Education
Medical Education
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine MDResidency
MetroHealth Medical Center (Ohio) – Med/PedsInternship
MetroHealth Medical Center (Ohio) – Med/PedsBoard Certifications
American Academy of HIV MedicineAmerican Board of Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine
American Board of Pediatrics - Pediatrics