Paul D. Mintz

Biography

 Paul D. Mintz, MD was elected to the Nuo Therapeutics, Inc. Board of Directors, effective April 7, 2017. Dr. Mintz is currently the Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Verax Biomedical. Prior to joining Verax Biomedical in early 2016, Dr. Mintz served as Director, Division of Hematology Clinical Review, Office of Blood Research and Review, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Prior to that, for more than 30 years, Dr. Mintz was a member of the faculty of the University of Virginia School of Medicine, where he was a tenured Professor of Pathology and Internal Medicine. He also served as Vice-Chair of Pathology and Chief of the Division of Clinical Pathology, and as Medical Director of the Clinical Laboratories and Transfusion Medicine Services at the University of Virginia Health System. In addition, Dr. Mintz served as Co-Medical Director of Virginia Blood Services. Dr. Mintz is a former President of the American Association of Blood Banks (AABB), served on the AABB’s Board of Directors for nine years, and was a member of and chaired numerous AABB committees. Dr. Mintz is a recipient of the AABB’s John Elliott Memorial Award. He has also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Blood Foundation. Dr. Mintz is the recipient of a Transfusion Medicine Academic Award from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and was an inaugural inductee into the National Blood Foundation Hall of Fame. He also served as a member of the Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Dr. Mintz is author or co-author of more than 100 articles and editorials spanning clinical practice, blood safety and the evaluation of new transfusion medicine technologies, and has designed and served as principal investigator for numerous clinical trials. He is the sole editor of all three editions of Transfusion Therapy: Clinical Principles and Practice (AABB Press) and has served on several journal editorial boards. Dr. Mintz earned his BA in Philosophy from the University of Rochester and received his MD with honors from the University of Rochester School of Medicine. Dr. Mintz brings considerable knowledge of platelet biology and transfusion medicine, along with senior regulatory and reimbursement experience to Nuo Therapeutics, and will be enormously valuable as the company strives to advance the Aurix System toward broader commercialization in the large and growing chronic wound care market.

Research Interest

 regulatory and reimbursement experience