John M. Flack, MD, MPH
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI

Dr Flack, a member of CADRE's Educational Outreach Subcommittee, is a professor, the associate chairman for academic affairs, and the chief quality officer in the Department of Internal Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, where he is also director of the Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Clinical Applications (CECA) Program. He also holds an appointment in the Department of Community Medicine.

Dr Flack is an expert in cardiovascular diseases; his research interests include hypertension in African Americans, determinants of blood pressure responses to drug therapy, and utilization of software-based approaches to support optimal clinical decision-making. He is principal investigator at the recently established Wayne State University Center for African-American Urban Health, which is funded by a grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; research at the center focuses on obesity, lifestyle, and other lifestyle factors and how they interact with environmental and interpersonal stressors and genetic factors to predispose individuals to cardiovascular diseases and cancer, two conditions that disproportionately affect African Americans.

Dr Flack has published over 115 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters in the areas of hypertension therapy, salt and blood pressure, and cardiovascular epidemiology and is a manuscript reviewer for several peer-reviewed medical journals including Ethnicity and Disease, JAMA, Hypertension, Circulation, ABC Digest of Urban Cardiology, and the American Journal of Medicine. Dr. Flack is currently the president of the International Society of Hypertension in Blacks and was a former member of the Health Care Quality and Effectiveness Research study section of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.