Laura Janine Mintz, MD, PhD

TITLE

Assistant Professor of Medicine, CWRU
Faculty, Center for Health Equity Engagement, Education, and Research (CHEEER)
Faculty, Population Health Equity Institute (PEHRI). MetroHealth
Physician, PRIDE Network, Internal Medicine-Pediatrics, MetroHealth

SUMMARY

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.

Laura J. Mintz, MD, PhD (they/she)