Erica Mintzer, MD

About

Dr. Erica Mintzer is a Family Physician and the incoming Medical Director for Boston Medical Center Brighton Primary Care. 

Dr. Mintzer has focused her career on improving the health of patients, families and communities through direct clinical care as well as enhancing systems to promote population health. She has specific experience in operationalizing Group Medical Visits and leading quality improvements in Perinatal Care.  Prior to returning to BMC, she was medical director from 2019-2025 for the Malden Family Medicine Center, which is Cambridge Health Alliance’s largest primary care site and home of the Tufts Family Medicine Residency.  In 2025, she became Medical Director for Group Visits for CHA Primary Care.  From 2012- 2019, she practiced primary care at Codman Square Health Center and labor and delivery at Boston Medical Center.  At Codman, she served as Perinatal Provider Champion and Family Medicine Department Director.

Dr. Mintzer graduated from Yale School of Medicine and Boston University Family Medicine Residency.  She honed her leadership skills through the Kraft Practitioner Program in Community Health and the Linde Fellowship in Primary Care Leadership.  Dr. Mintzer received a BA in Latin American Literature from Dartmouth College and then worked for three years at Tellus Institute, an environmental policy consulting firm.