Dr. Berk is a member of the core faculty of the Brown Med-Peds program and is a clinic preceptor. He completed his residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital with a focus on urban health primary care. He completed his undergraduate and MPH at Yale and his MD/MBA at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center. He has a passion for primary care, addiction medicine, and medical education. He was previously a producer for the internal medicine podcast “The Curbsiders” and founded the pediatric spin-off “The Cribsiders” which has over 2 million downloads. He is the Director of the Center for Health and Justice Transformation and conducts NIH-funded health services research to support individuals impacted by the criminal legal system.

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. DiMaggio joined the Brown Med-Peds Family in 2021! Vinny returned  to New England where he was an undergraduate at Boston College. After a year of clinical research back home in NYC, Vinny attended the Special Master's Program in Physiology & Biophysics at Georgetown. He remained in DC to attend Georgetown University School of Medicine where he fell in love with Med-Peds. Vinny completed residency at The University of Chicago, where was inducted into AOA for clinical teaching and completed a Fellowship in Clinical Medical Ethics. He also spent a year as Chief Resident in Pediatrics. During that year, his work focused on redesigning the program’s educational conference curriculum. Vinny went on to join faculty at UChicago Medicine where he endeavored to develop a High-Risk Transitions Clinic within the Comprehensive Care Program in collaboration with a Federally Qualified Health Center on the South Side of Chicago. Additionally, he served as Faculty for the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, supervising attending physician in the Comer Children's Hospital Pediatrics Emergency Department, and teaching attending for inpatient general medicine at Chicago Medicine.

Vinny is passionate about medical education. He practices and precepts in the Brown Med-Peds Primary Care Clinic and is a teaching attending at Rhode Island Hospital and Hasbro Children's Hospital. His clinical and academic interests include Transitions Medicine and care for the underserved.

Vinny is a girl dad in a young family! Well, except for his old pup Bo. When not at work, he’s working on braiding techniques, watching football or Bluey (it’s usually Bluey…), or, if lucky, sneaking in a video game sesh of his own!

Dr. Grumbach is a graduate and former chief resident of the Medicine-Pediatrics Residency at Brown. He received his medical degree from the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, where he was raised, after graduating from Bowdoin College, honoring in Biology and History. He has held various jobs, including working on a whale watching boat in Bar Harbor, Maine, as a ski instructor in Vail, Colorado, and even as a unionized elevator operator in NYC’s midtown during high school. He previously practiced at Anchor Medical Associates in Warwick, RI, for 18 years where he served as Physician Chief, and has been precepting at the Medicine Pediatrics Primary Care Center since he completed residency. Nick also cares for incarcerated persons at the Adult Correctional Institutions in Cranston, Rhode Island. And he volunteers regularly at Amos House in Providence.

Nick has 3 children, all native Rhode Islanders, and his wife, Elizabeth, is a science teacher in Providence. He is one of a growing number of Med-Peds-trained clinician educators in practice in Rhode Island. Nick is a recipient of The Warren Alpert Medical School’s Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. He serves on a couple of Rhode Island Department of Health committees, one by appointment by former Governor Gina Raimondo. Nick is also pursuing biomedical and medical entrepreneurship, mentoring and advising at Brown’s Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and at the Social Enterprise Greenhouse in Providence.

What’s your favorite thing about living in Rhode Island? I came to Rhode Island from New York, and I never thought I’d live here and now I love it. Things here are easy, the people are friendly and welcoming, there’s the beach, and mountains are not far away!

What is the biggest strength of the program in your eyes? It’s very supportive. Having trained in NYC and Boston, the culture is different and a better fit for me. Nobody makes anyone feel small. People rarely have an ego.

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.

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. Lillian Seo is the newest member of the Brown Med-Peds family, returning to Brown after completing fellowship training in HIV and Tuberculosis Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases. She earned her MD from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and completed her Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency at UMass Chan–Baystate, where she served as Chief Resident and received multiple teaching and resident leadership awards.

Dr. Seo’s clinical interests include HIV medicine, tuberculosis, correctional health, street medicine, and care for people experiencing homelessness. Her academic work focuses on health equity, medical education, HIV prevention, and expanding access to care for underserved populations. She has contributed to research and scholarly publications in infectious diseases, medical education, geriatrics, and telemedicine, and has presented widely on topics ranging from HIV care to anti-racism in medicine.

An enthusiastic clinician educator, Dr. Seo is passionate about mentorship, advocacy, and creating inclusive learning environments for trainees. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and is recognized as an HIV Specialist by the American Academy of HIV Medicine.