Suzanne McLaughlin is the Program Director for the Brown Med-Peds Residency Program. She received her undergraduate degree in International Studies from the Johns Hopkins University. After working in prenatal care at People’s Community Health Center and prenatal cytogenetics at Johns Hopkins, she received her Masters in Maternal and Child Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and her MD from the University of Connecticut. She completed Med-Peds residency training here at Brown, and a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. Her clinical research interests are in health care transition and care delivery in primary care settings, her work has been supported by the Picker Institute, Gold Foundation and the American Academy of Pediatrics. She collaborates with the National Health Care Transition Research Consortium and is an Academic Pediatric Association Educational Scholar. She received the 2014 Department of Medicine Beckwith Family Teaching award and is the physician-champion for our clinic’s grant supported Patient Centered Medical Home initiative.

Dr. Sybil Cineas is an Associate Program Director for the Brown Med-Peds Residency Program, where she has been a mentor and advisor to generations of residents since joining the faculty in 1999. A graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Medical School, she completed her Med-Peds residency at the Harvard Combined Program. At Brown, she directs the Med-Peds ambulatory experience, designing innovative curricula like the second year Enhanced Primary Care Rotation (E-PCR).

Passionate about teaching and supporting educators at all levels, Dr. Cineas is a Career in Medicine advisor at the Warren Alpert Medical School. Having previously served as an Assistant Director for the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC), she remains deeply involved in the program and continues to actively precept LIC medical students within her clinical practice, earning the 2026 LIC Mentor Award for her exceptional dedication. She also champions institutional support for educational excellence, recently securing a $49,000 Primary Care Training Sites Program (PCTSP) grant to support and fund preceptors within her practice. Her outstanding teaching has been recognized with multiple Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Awards, and the Department of Medicine Beckwith Family Teaching Award.

Beyond her local educational leadership, Dr. Cineas is a national public health advocate. From 2021 to 2025, she served on the CDC’s prestigious Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), and she is deeply committed to educating residents about vaccine science and advocacy.

Locally, she champions equity, diversity, and mentorship. In recognition of her advocacy and leadership, she received the 2017 Mentorship Award in Diversity and Equity and the 2025 Student National Medical Association (SNMA) Award of Excellence. She continues to serve on the Department of Medicine Belonging and Equity Committee and was a longtime advisor to the Brown Minority House Staff Association (BMHA).

A dedicated advocate for community and global health, Dr. Cineas has volunteered at the Rhode Island Free Clinic (RIFC) since 1999 and serves on its Medical Advisory Committee. In 2018, she took her support for the clinic to the dance floor—competing in Dancing with the Doctors, where she scored perfect 10s for her cha-cha and raised over $19,000 for RIFC. Her commitment to global medicine also includes past clinical service in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Armenia.  Dr. Cineas speaks 5 languages and is certified bilingual in Spanish.

Dr. Lorenz is the Associate Program Director for the Med-Peds residency program. He attended medical school at the University of Tennessee and Med-Peds residency training at Brown (Class of 2019), where he completed the Clinician Educator Track and BRIGHT pathway. He splits his clinical time between the Med-Peds continuity clinic, where he took over leadership of the refugee clinic in 2021, and Rhode Island Hospital / Hasbro Children’s Hospital, working as a teaching hospitalist on both pediatrics and internal medicine. He is a recipient of the Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award, the Doctoring Program’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and the Department of Medicine’s Beckwith Family Award for Outstanding Teaching.

He is passionate about medical education, refugee health, and narrative medicine. Matt loves the outdoors, a good campfire, houseplant resuscitation, and getting the best of his office-mate, Justin Berk.

What’s your favorite thing about living in Rhode Island? Tough to pick one thing. It’s such an open-minded and accepting place–a great fit for me and my family. We love the outdoors here and having four distinct seasons. And of course the food scene is awesome here. What’s a hidden gem in Rhode Island? There are so many great walks here. Blackstone Boulevard, Swan Point Cemetery (my favorite–seriously!), the Avenue Concept mural walks in Providence, and the day hikes all over the state.