Faculty

Kristin Lehr Anderson, MD
Clinical Instructor in Medicine

Dr. Anderson is a graduate of the Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency at Brown. She received her B.A. in Anthropology with a minor in Spanish at Skidmore College in 1995 and her M.D. from Albany Medical College in 2002. During her residency at Brown she helped to develop the Young Doctors Club with an inner city middle school in Providence and now serves as a faculty advisor for the after school program. She has joined Women's Health Associates at Rhode Island Hospital, a primary care office specializing in internal medicine for woman. She continues to work with residents and medical students on the wards and at the Medicine-Pediatrics Primary Care Center. Most recently, due to an interest in primary care and health care reform, she developed a Practice Management and Health Policy Curriculum for upper level residents. She enjoys spending her time outside the hospital with her husband, EJ and her three sons and is learning the art of being a woman in medicine!

Kimberly Babb, MD
Clinical Instructor in Medicine and Pediatrics

Dr. Babb graduated from Boston University School of Medicine and completed her Med/Peds residency at the University of Michigan. She sees patients and precepts residents and medical students in the Med/Peds clinic, attends at the Women's Health Associates practice and is a teaching attending on the inpatient wards. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her husband Niall and three daughters. After moving to Rhode Island in 2007, they have decided that Rhode Island is one of the greatest hidden treasures of the US.

Dr. Cineas is the Assistant Program Director for the residency. She joined our Medicine/Pediatrics clinician-educator faculty in 1999. She received her BS in Biology with a minor in Italian at Georgetown University in 1991 and her medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1995. She is a highly regarded graduate of the Harvard Combined Medicine-Pediatrics Residency. Dr. Cineas is fluent in Spanish, French, French Creole and Italian. She divides her time between direct patient care and precepting residents in the Medicine Pediatrics Primary Care Center. She is also the course director of the Medicine-Pediatrics Longitudinal Rotation and serves as a faculty advisor for Brown Medical Students interested in Med-Peds. Dr Cineas has also been actively involved with the RI free clinic where she volunteers once a month and serves on the Medical Advisory Committee. Since 2005, she has been a participant of the Department of Medicine Dominican Republic exchange program, traveling to Santiago, DR with medical students, residents, and other faculty and is currently collaborating in the development of pediatric training opportunities in Haiti. Dr Cineas enjoys traveling, reading, salsa dancing, watching tennis, and playing volleyball.

Jennifer (Turner) Gartman, MD
Clinical Instructor of Pediatrics and Medicine

Dr. Gartman graduated from the Internal Medicine / Pediatrics Residency Program at Brown in June of 2008. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Notre Dame in Premedical Studies and Anthropology, and her Medical Degree from Georgetown University. She is the Clinical Director of the Medicine Pediatrics Primary Care Center at Rhode Island Hospital where she precepts and sees patients. She has an interest in the care of incarcerated youth and staffs a weekly clinic at the Rhode Island Training School, the state juvenile detention center. In her free time, she enjoys spending time with her husband, Eric, cooking, running, and watching college football.

Nicholas Grumbach, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics

Dr. Grumbach is a recent graduate and former chief resident of the Medicine/Pediatrics Residency at Brown. He received his medical degree from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, where he was raised. He has had various jobs, including working on a whale watching boat in Bar Harbor, ME and as a ski instructor in Vail, CO. He practices at Anchor Medical Associates in Warwick, RI and he has been precepting in the MPPCC since he completed his residency, where he also sees his own panel of patients. He volunteers regularly at Amos House in Providence. He has three children, all native Rhode Islanders and is one of a growing number of Medicine/Pediatrics-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.

Dr. Larkin attended Boston College receiving a BA in History. After teaching school for two years with the Peace Corps in Liberia, West Africa, he worked for a nonprofit foundation serving children with HIV in New Jersey. He attended Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Piscataway, New Jersey and then completed a Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics residency at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts. He served as Med/Peds Chief in his fourth year after which he was on the faculty as Associate Program Director for three years. He subsequently was in private practice in rural Vermont for three years and then completed an Infectious Disease fellowship at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. He joined the Division of Infectious Diseases at Rhode Island Hospital in November, 2005 and works actively with the Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program at Brown.

Dr. McLaughlin is the Residency Director and Med/Peds Section Chief. She completed undergraduate studies at the Johns Hopkins University, received a Masters in Maternal and Child Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and her MD from the University of Connecticut. After her Med/Peds residency training here at Rhode Island and Hasbro Children's Hospital, she pursued her interest in health services research through the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program. Her research interests are in health care transition and the management of chronic conditions in primary care settings. And she has been awarded a Picker Institute/Gold Foundation Challenge Grant to develop resident training in health care transition. She stays active (but not always awake) chasing after her four young children. In returning to Providence, she's hopeful that history will triumph over judgment and New England Pest Control will let her take another family holiday photo on the roof next to the Big Blue Bug.

Inspired by her experience teaching high school, Dr. Toll decided to pursue a medical career caring for children, adults, and families. She completed her medical degree and residency at the University of Rochester and then worked for four years in the San Francisco Bay area with a family practice group. Upon settling in Providence in 1996, she initially worked in the city’s community health centers. She joined the Brown Medicine/Pediatrics program in 1997 and helped to found our clinic, the Medicine/Pediatrics Primary Care Center, in 1998. Since then, she has worked in the clinic combining a clinical practice with teaching. She enjoys the diversity of ages, cultures, and socioeconomic backgrounds our patients bring to us. Her interests include improving diabetes care through informatics, developing a refugee health program, and integrating mental health care in the primary care setting. During the remainder of her time, Dr. Toll is mom to three kids – 18, 16, and 14 -- and finds the combination of mothering and doctoring to be one of great synergy. She was honored in 2009 with the Department of Medicine's Beckwith Teaching Award.