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 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. Samuel Mann
Dr. Mann is a physician, researcher, and author specializing in the management of patients with challenging forms of hypertension at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College. He has published numerous papers in leading medicine, hypertension and psychology journals.
Though a faculty member at a prestigious medical institution at the forefront of heart health and traditional medicine, he offers an important new and radically different understanding of the mind/body connection that goes beyond decades-long traditional schools of thought.
His pioneering new book, Hidden Within Us; A Radical New Understanding of the Mind-Body Connection conveys, in very accessible language, the relevance of this new understanding to many highly prevalent chronic medical conditions, whose cause and treatment have remained inadequately understood. Examples include hypertension (certain forms), chronic fatigue syndrome, migraine, autoimmune diseases, inflammatory bowel diseases, chronic pain syndromes, and others.
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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