Suzanne McLaughlin is a board-certified pediatrician and internist and the Medicine-Pediatrics residency Program Director. She practices and precepts at the Medicine Pediatrics Primary Care Center, and serves as Medical Director. Her research interests are in promoting wellness and care for chronic illness in primary care settings, health care transition and medical education. Her curriculum and educational learning environment development have been supported by the Gold Foundation, the AAP, and ACGME Back to Bedside grants, and collaborations include the MPPDA Transitions Committee, and the Primary Care Workgroup for the ACP CSS Transition Project. An Associate Professor, Teaching Scholar track, of the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and a recipient of the Department of Medicine Beckwith Teaching Award and the ACGME Parker Palmer Courage to Teach Award. Dr. McLaughlin completed her residency at Brown University and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the Johns Hopkins University School, with a clinical focus on adolescent health care and a training focus on program development. She has a Masters in Maternal and Child Health from the Harvard School of Public Health and has worked with a variety of community and non-profit service agencies on projects to address chronic care needs. She is currently Co-Chair of the RI Department of Health Primary Care Physicians Advisory Committee.
