About
Samuel J. Mann, M.D.
Nationally Known Hypertension Specialist
Specialist on the management of unexplained or difficult to control hypertension.
Dr. Mann is a physician, researcher, author and specialist in the management of hypertension. He focuses his career on improving the management of hypertension by getting patients onto the drugs, combinations and dosages, that are right for them. Different patients need different medications depending on what is driving their hypertension. His main interests are the treatment of resistant hypertension and paroxysmal (episodic) hypertension. He also has a keen interest in, and pioneering perspective on, the mind/body connection in hypertension and other medical conditions.

About Dr. Mann
Dr. Mann is the author of two books. “Hypertension and You: Old Drugs, New Drugs and the Right Drugs for Your High Blood Pressure” presents readers with information they should know about the variety of excellent blood pressure medications available, and how they could be prescribed much more wisely to greatly reduce the persisting common problems of uncontrolled hypertension and medication side effects. His other book “Healing Hypertension: A Revolutionary New Approach” focuses on the mind/body connection in hypertension. This book explains why the usual suspects – stress, anger, and anxiety – are not a cause of hypertension.
Dr. Mann currently holds the position of Professor of Clinical Medicine in the division of Nephrology and Hypertension at New York Presbyterian – Weill Cornell Center, New York, NY. He combines his clinical practice with research on the treatment of resistant hypertension and emphasizes the need to prescribe treatment that targets the mechanisms causing an individual’s hypertension. His papers have been published in leading hypertension, medicine, and psychology journals and he has been featured on The New York Times and other publications.
He has also written extensively about “mind-body” hypertension, offering a very different view of the link between emotions and hypertension, and has pioneered new approaches to treatment. It will be the subject of his next book, tentatively titled: A Radical New Understanding of the Mind/Body Connection.
He lives with his wife in NYC. He stays in shape running in Central Park and was one of 2000 who ran the first New York City Marathon.
Current Position
Professor of Clinical Medicine
New York Presbyterian Hospital – Weill Cornell Medical Center
January 1984 – present
American Board of Internal Medicine Certification, 1975
Specialist in Clinical Hypertension, American Society of Hypertension, 1999
Education:
New York University
BA, Biology
1964 – 1968
SUNY, Downstate Medical Center
MD
1968 – 1972
Medical Residency: St. Luke’s – Roosevelt Hospital, NY
1972-1975
Hypertension Fellowship: Mt Sinai Hospital, NY.
1981-1983
Book Chapters
- Mann SJ, Atlas SA. Hypertensive Emergencies. In: Hypertension: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management. JH Laragh and BM Brenner (eds). Raven Press. New York, 1990. pp. 2275-2289.
- Mann SJ, Atlas SA, Laragh JH. Hypertensive Emergencies. In Surgical Intensive Care. PS Barie and GT Shires (eds). Little Brown and Co. 1992.
- Pickering TG, Mann SJ, Pecker MS. Hypertension. In Current Nephrology. Vol. 16 (HD Gonick (ed.). Mosby-YearBook, Inc. St. Louis, MO, 1993. pp.177-148.
- Atlas SA, Mann SJ. Hypertensive Emergencies. In: The Principles and Practice of Nephrology (Second Edition). HR Jacobson, GF Striker and S Klahr (eds.) Mosby-YearBook, Inc., St. Louis, 1995.
- Pickering TG, Mann SJ. Renovascular Hypertension: Medical Evaluation and Nonsurgical Treatment. In: Hypertension: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management. JH Laragh, BM Brenner (eds.) Raven Press, New York, 1995. pp. 2039-2054.
- Mann SJ, Blumenfeld JD, Laragh JH. Issues, Goals and Guidelines for Choosing First Time and Combination Antihypertensive Drug Therapy. In: Hypertension: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis and Management. JH Laragh, BM Brenner (eds.) Raven Press, New York, 1995. pp. 2531-2542.
- Mann SJ. The Engima of Hypertension and Psychosomatic Illness: Lessons for Psychoneuroimmunology from Beyond the Conscious Mind. In Social and Cultural Lives of Immune Systems. Wilce JM (ed.), Routledge. London 2003. pp. 191-204.
- Mann SJ. Hypertensive Emergencies. In Therapy in Nephrology and Hypertension. HR Brady, CS Wilcox (eds.) WB Saunders. Philadelphia, 2008; pp. 624-634.
- “Hypertension and the Mindbody Connection A New Paradigm,” to Dr. John Sarno’s The Divided Mind. Harper Collins e-books, 1st Edition (October 13, 2009), p 185-226.
- Mann SJ. Paroxysmal Hypertension: Pseudopheochromocytoma. In A Berbari, G Mancia, eds, Disorders of Blood Pressure Regulation: Phenotypes, Mechanisms, Therapeutic Options. Springer 2017.
- Mann SJ. Labile Hypertension. Post TW, ed. UpToDate. Waltham, MA: UpToDate Inc. https://www.uptodate.com/
- Mann SJ. Paroxysmal Hypertension (Pseudopheochromocytoma). Post TW, ed. UpToDate. Waltham, MA: UpToDate Inc. https://www.uptodate.com/ Accessed Feb. 5, 2020.
Beyond Mainstream Medical Thinking
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