JOHN M. FLACK, MD, MPH
Wayne State University
School of Medicine
Detroit, Michigan
Dr. Flack, MD, MPH, currently serves as professor and associate chairman for Academic Affairs in the Department of Internal Medicine, and the director of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Clinical Applications Program (CECA), and program director of the Academic Hospital Program (Internal Medicine Hospital Training Practice Support Program) in the Department of Internal Medicine at Wayne State University (WSU). Dr. Flack also holds an appointment in the Department of Community Medicine at WSU. He is the former vice president of the medical staff at Vencor Hospital in Detroit, Michigan. Before joining the faculty at WSU, Dr. Flack served as associate professor of surgery, Medicine and Public Health Sciences at Bowman Gray School of Medicine at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where he also served as associate director of the Hypertension Center and head of the Clinic Hypertension Division. His research interest includes clinical trial design, implementation, and monitoring hypertension in African Americans. He has served as the principal investigator of the Data Coordination Center for the Calcium Antagonist in Blacks (CAB) and ATIME clinical trials.
Dr. Flack received a bachelor of science in chemistry from Langston University in 1978 and spent the ensuing 10 years at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where he attended medical school (1978-1982) and completed an internal medicine residency (1982-1985) and chief medical residency (1985-1986). He was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) Medical Honor Society while a medical student.
Dr. Flack completed a National Institutes of Health fellowship in Cardiovascular Epidemiology and obtained an MPH in epidemiology at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health (1988-1990). After serving as an assistant professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health (1990-1992), he served as Section Chief of General and Preventive Medicine (1992-1994) until he moved to his position at Bowman Gray School of Medicine.
The author of more than 103 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters, Dr. Flack was selected as one of the "Best Doctors in America" in 1998 by Woodward/White, Inc. He also received the Distinguished Research Award in 1993 from the International Society of Hypertension in Blacks (ISHIB). He serves on several national advisory boards, including the ISHIB board where he began his term as vice-president in January 1998. He is a manuscript reviewer for several prominent medical journals including the ABC Digest of Urban Cardiology, American Geriatric Society, Behavioral Medicine, Ethnicity & Disease, Hypertension, JAMA, Lab & Clinical Medicine and Preventive Medicine. Dr. Flack is also a special consultant to the FDA advisory committee on metabolic and endocrinologic drug products. Dr. Flack was the recipient of the 1998 Daniel J. Savage Distinguished Research Award from the Association of Black Cardiologists. In addition, he is a member of the Health Care Quality Effectiveness Research study section at the Agency for Health Care Policy Research.
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