Top Internist and Hypertension Specialist, Dr. John M. Flack, Welcomes Patients at the Hypertension Clinic at SIU Medicine in Carbondale, IL

John M. Flack, MD, MPH, FAHA, FASH, MACP, is a well-versed internist and clinical hypertension specialist who diagnoses and treats patients as Director of the Hypertension Clinic through the Department of Internal Medicine at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, IL. Furthermore, Dr. Flack is member of the AHA Research Strategic Outcomes Committee, the Psychosocial Risk and Disease Prevention NIH Study Section, and the Environmental Health Sciences Review Committee. He is the Vice President of the American Society of Hypertension (ASH) Specialist Board. Dr. Flack has an impressive professional journey that spans thirty-three years and his expertise covers areas such as diagnosis and treatment of secondary forms of hypertension, difficult to control (resistant) hypertension, and hypertension in African Americans. Dr. Flack has published over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts, editorials, and book chapters in the areas of hypertension therapeutics, salt and blood pressure, and cardiorenal epidemiology. He is a manuscript reviewer and serves on the editorial boards for peer-reviewed medical journals. For more information about Dr. John M. Flack, please visit https://www.siumed.edu/im/faculty/john-m-flack.html.

Prior to his current endeavors, Dr. Flack served as Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health Division of Epidemiology, Section Chief of General and Preventive Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Associate Professor of Surgery, Medicine, and Public Health Sciences and Associate Director and Medical Director of the Hypertension Center Clinical Facilities at Bowman Gray Medical School, as well as Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine. He was a Principal Investigator on two NHLBI-funded studies and Co-Principal Investigator on the NHLBI-funded Sodium Sensitivity in Blacks Study. Dr. Flack’s treatment philosophy is to gradually lower blood pressure with diet and careful selection of well-tolerated anti-hypertensive drugs that are not only effective but safe in the combinations used. For more information about Dr. John M. Flack, please visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-flack-3122666/.

John M. Flack, MD, attended the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine and received his medical degree in 1982. Then, he served his internship and internal medicine residency at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, where he served as Chief Resident (1982-1986). In addition, he completed his fellowship training in cardiovascular epidemiology and obtained a Master of Public Health degree at National Institutes of Health/University of Minnesota in 1990. He completed his undergraduate education at Langston University in 1978. Dr. Flack received board certification in internal medicine from the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Hypertension, Fellow of the American Heart Association, and Master of the American College of Physicians. Over the years, he was named Best Doctor in America multiple times and has been granted the Pillar of Excellence Award from the Michigan Peer Review Organization and the Health Care Hero Award from Crain’s Detroit Business in 2005 for health disparities-related research. For more information about Dr. John M. Flack, please visit https://www.findatopdoc.com/doctor/453190-John-Flack-Internist.