Welcome to brown med-peds!
A Message from our program leadership



Thank you for your interest in the Brown Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program. Our program encompasses an amazing group of residents, a dedicated Med-Peds-trained faculty, and a Med-Peds continuity site that serves as a home to the residents and the program. We benefit from strong and balanced categorical programs in Internal Medicine and in Pediatrics with highly committed department chairs and exceptional teaching faculty in each discipline. Founded in 1995, the Brown Med-Peds program offers four positions per year through ERAS and is fully accredited by the ACGME, the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Pediatrics.
The program faculty and residents, the categorical departments, and the institution strive to offer an academically-oriented training program that prepares exceptional physicians capable of providing high quality individual care and improving the health status of populations. We seek residents who are compassionate, intellectually curious, and committed to developing excellent clinical skills in preparation for their future endeavors. The graduates of our program join an ever-growing national community of Med-Peds trained physician leaders and educators in the areas of primary care, subspecialty care spanning pediatric and adult conditions, health care transitions, global health, and public health. It’s thrilling to see the high caliber of medical students interested in joining this specialty, and we appreciate your interest in our program. Please use this website to learn more about our Med-Peds program here at Brown University and Lifespan, and please contact us if you have additional questions or feedback.
Warm regards,
Suzanne McLaughlin, MD MSc
Program Director
Sybil Cineas, MD
Associate Program Director
Matthew Lorenz, MD
Associate Program Director
News for prospective Med-Peds applicants!
- Questions about the 2023-24 application cycle? Check out our Applying page!
- Hear what Brown Med-Peds is all about with our program podcast!
- Check us out on Instagram @medpedsatbrown and Twitter @brownmedpeds!
- And what’s going on in Rhode Island this season?
2023-24 program shout-outs!
- Justin Berk, MP Core Faculty, was quoted in The New York Times on the treatment of opioid use disorder in prisons (one of his research focuses)!
- Matthew Lorenz, MP Core Faculty, co-authored an article on the use of pharmacological sleep aids for acute insomnia in hospitalized patients as a Thing We Do For No Reason!
- Emily Kruse, PGY3, and Rebecca Raymond-Kolker, PGY3, were accepted into the Clinician Educator Track!
- Cecilia Paasche, PGY2, Tabitha Ndung’u, PGY2, and Laura Schwartz, PGY3, were accepted into the Arts & Medicine track!
2022-23 program shout-outs!
- Madeleine Ward, PGY3, organized the 2023 Arts & Medicine Showcase, featuring a number of talks on residency radio, patient care experiences, the physician-patient relationship, and medical poetry!
- Maya Tsao-Wu, PGY1, Rebecca Raymond-Kolker, PGY2, Laura Schwartz, PGY2, Ann Ding, IM Chief Resident and MP Class of 2022, and Vinny DiMaggio, MP Core Faculty, were recognized as 2023 Positive Champions of the Learning Environment!
- Matthew Lorenz, MP Core Faculty, received the Dean’s Excellence in Teaching Award for 2023!
- Fritz Siegert, PGY4, gave a podium presentation for Brown’s Senior Resident Research Day on his abstract entitled “Global health fellowship leaders’ perspectives on global health core content and fellowship accreditation”!
- Ann Ding, IM Chief Resident and MP Class of 2022, received Lifespan’s 2023 Haffenreffer Family House Staff Excellence Award!
- Anita Gandhi, PGY1, and Maya Tsao-Wu, PGY1, received an 2023 AAP Catch Grant for their project entitled “Equipping Schools to Stop the Bleed”!
- Justin Berk, MP Core Faculty, gave a plenary talk entitled “Compassionate Approaches in the Criminal Legal System” at the American Society for Addiction Medicine’s 2023 Annual Conference!
- Matthew Lorenz, MP Core Faculty, was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Physicians!
- Ashley Nguyen, PGY4, presented her abstract “The Spice of Life: A Dash of Danger” at the Eastern Food Allergy and Comorbidity Conference and published an article entitled “A Potpourri of Summer Allergic Environmental Disorders” in the Annals of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology!
- Rebecca Raymond-Kolker, PGY2, and Madeleine Ward, PGY3, were selected by their peers as class representatives for the PGY2 and PGY3 Internal Medicine residency classes, respectively!
- Ashley Nguyen, PGY4, published an article entitled “It’s Never the Right Time to Say Goodbye… Until It Is: Transitioning from Pediatric to Adult Primary Care” in the Rhode Island Medical Journal!
- Julia Solomon, PGY4, presented her abstract “Too Cool for the Pool: A Case of Paroxysmal Cold Hemoglobinuria in a Young Adult” at the 2022 AAP Experience National Conference & Exhibition!
- Ashley Nguyen, PGY4, presented her abstract “Creating a penicillin oral provocation challenge at the only federally qualified health center in Providence, RI” at the New England Society of Allergy’s fall meeting!
- Chelsea Boyd, PGY4, and Burton Shen, MP Class of 2020, presented their abstract “Implementation of a Critical Care Point-Of-Care Ultrasound Curriculum for Pediatric Residents at Hasbro Children’s Hospital” at Brown’s Department of Pediatrics Celebration of Scholarship!
- Rebecca Raymond-Kolker, PGY2, produced new episodes on the Cribsiders podcast: Med Recs! Two Earfuls of Medication Safety and Facing the (Core) Fear! Pediatric Anxiety Pt 1: Live the Exposure Lifestyle!
- Anu Goel, PGY2, published 2 recent articles as first author: “Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in an adolescent following SARS-CoV-2 exposure despite three doses of a COVID-19 vaccine” in the Rhode Island Medical Journal, and “Characteristics of provider-focused research on complementary and integrative medicine in palliative care: a scoping review” in the American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine!
- Melinda Delaney, MP Core Faculty, is leading a randomized control trial on improving COVID-19 vaccine uptake in pediatric patients!
- Ruth Cadet, PGY3, was selected to participate in the inaugural class of Brown’s Pediatric Residency’s International Child Health Track! Ruth also received a full scholarship to attend the upcoming Society for Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics annual meeting!
- Fritz Siegert, PGY4, published an article entitled “Pasteurella Multocida Urinary Tract Infection in a Susceptible Patient with Non-Traumatic Feline Contact” in the Rhode Island Medical Journal!
Visit our categorical programs in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics by clicking the links below.