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.