Dr. Mann is a Professor of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and Director of the Winters Center for Heart Failure Research. He received his undergraduate training at Lafayette College and his medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine. After finishing his residency in Medicine at Temple University Hospital, he completed his Cardiology Fellowship at the University of California at San Diego, and was a Clinical and Research Follow at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and a Research Fellow in Cardiology at Temple University Hospital. The major focus of Dr. Mann's laboratory research has been to define the basic cellular and molecular mechanism(s) that are responsible for disease progression in the failing heart. His research efforts have focused on translating novel findings obtained in the basic research laboratory into multi-center clinical trials. Dr Mann is an associate editor for Circulation and Deputy Editor for Chest, and is a member of the Editorial Board of Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Cardiology Today and Heart and Vessels, Heart Failure Reviews and Heart Failure Monitor. He has received numerous awards including the Alfred Soffer Award for Editorial Excellence from the American College of Chest Physicians, the Michael E. Debakey Award for Excellence in Research. Dr. Mann is a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of University Cardiologists. He is a Fellow of both the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Chest Physicians. He is also a member of the Executive Council for the Heart Failure Society of America. |