Justin Berk, MD MBA MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Epidemiology
Pronouns: he/him

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 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 is a producer of the internal medicine podcast, “The Curbsiders”, and founder of the pediatrics podcast, “The Cribsiders.”

Justin was born in Tennessee, raised in Texas, will always love Baltimore, and is grateful for his new home in Rhode Island. Justin enjoys spending time at coffee shops, running short distances, thinking about hiking, and sharing an office with the incredibly delightful Matt Lorenz. 

Sybil Cineas, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, and Medical Science
Pronouns: she/her

Dr. Cineas is the Associate Program Director for the Brown Med-Peds Residency Program.  She is a graduate of Georgetown University and Harvard Medical School. She completed her Med-Peds residency at the Harvard Combined Program (BWH/Children’s Hospital/MGH).  She joined the faculty in 1999 and has been an advisor and mentor to many classes of Brown Med-Peds residents. She oversees the Med-Peds ambulatory experience for the residents including the curriculum, a focused Enhanced Primary Care Rotation (E-PCR) for second year residents, and Med-Peds focused block rotations. She also enjoys working with and mentoring medical students. Dr. Cineas serves as a Career in Medicine faculty advisor at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and is currently an Assistant Director for the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (LIC) as part of the medical school’s new Primary Care-Population Medicine track.  She is active in the National Med-Peds Program Directors Association – where she has presented her piloted Enhanced Primary Care curriculum. Dr. Cineas is the recipient of multiple teaching awards including the 2011 Department of Medicine Beckwith Family Teaching award. Since 1999, Dr. Cineas has been a regular volunteer at the Rhode Island Free Clinic and serves on the clinic’s Medical Advisory Committee. Dr. Cineas serves on the Office of Diversity and Minority Affairs Advisory Group and is an advisor to the Brown Minority House Staff Association (BMHA).  She also has a strong interest in international health and has participated in clinical experiences in Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Armenia.

Melinda Delaney, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Pronouns: she/her

Dr. Delaney is one of our newest faculty of the Brown Med-Peds program. She completed residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center where she completed the UPMC Medical Education Program. Dr. Delaney received her medical degree at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where she had a focus in urban underserved medicine. She is originally from southeastern Michigan and completed her undergraduate degree in Biology with high honors at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. She has a passion for underserved medicine, quality improvement, and medical education.

In addition to being faculty and a clinic preceptor at our Medicine-Pediatrics Primary Care Center she also works as an attending at the Rhode Island Free Clinic, where she became medical director in 2023. In her free time she enjoys running on all the bike paths in Rhode Island, traveling, and spending fall Saturdays decked out in maize and blue for college football season.

Vincent DiMaggio, MD MS
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Pronouns: he/him

Dr. DiMaggio is the most recent addition to the Brown Med-Peds Family! Vinny returns 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 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 UChicago Medicine.

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

Vinny is excited to come to Rhode Island with his young family! When not at work, he’ll hopefully be outdoors with his wife, daughter, and dog, Bo – hoping they all start to share his love of salt water in the Ocean State!

Nicholas Grumbach, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Pronouns: he/him

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 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.

Matthew Lorenz, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Pronouns: he/him

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, MD MSc
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics
Pronouns: she/her

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.