Peter Manu

Peter Manu (b. May 11,1947) is an American internal medicine specialist, medical teacher and clinical researcher. He is Professor of Medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell and the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Therapeutics.

Education

Peter Manu graduated in 1970 with an MD degree from the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania. He was an intern and resident at the University-affiliated hospitals in Bucharest (1970-1975). He also completed a residency in internal medicine at New York Presbyterian/Queens (1977-1980). He was certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1980.

Academic Career

Peter Manu taught as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the State University of New York, Upstate College of Medicine in Syracuse (1980-1983). He then moved to the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in the rank of Assistant Professor (1983-1989) and later Associate Professor (1990-1993). In 1994 he was appointed Associate Professor and promoted to Professor of Clinical Medicine in 2000 at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.  He joined the Hofstra University faculty as Professor of Medicine in 2010.

Research Career

He studied catecholamines in acute myocardial infarction in the early 1970’s in Bucharest with Arthur Karassi and Constantin Gh. Dimitriu. In the early 1980’s he worked in Syracuse on clinical decision analysis with Lorne Runge and Sheldon E. Schwartz. In the late 1980s and in 1990s he focused on chronic fatigue with Dale A. Matthews and Thomas J. Lane at the University of Connecticut. In the 2000’s, while at Einstein and Hofstra, he contributed to well-known studies of the metabolic complications of antipsychotic drugs, in work done with Christoph U. Correll and John M. Kane.

Clinical Career 

Peter Manu is considered an expert in the management of medical issues of patients with severe mental illnesses. He is the author of the chapter “Medical Consultation in Psychiatry” in the last 4 editions of the authoritative Cecil Textbook of Medicine (2008, 2012, 2016, 2020). 

Books

Manu P, Karlin-Zysman C, Grudnikoff E (Editors). Handbook of Medicine in Psychiatry, Third Edition, American Psychiatric Publishing, 2020.

Manu P, Flanagan RJ, Ronaldson KJ (Editors). Life-Threatening Effects of Antipsychotic Drugs. Elsevier/Academic Press, 2016.

Manu P, Karlin-Zysman C (Editors). Handbook of Medicine in Psychiatry, Second Edition. American Psychiatric Publishing, 2015.

Manu P, Suarez RE, Barnett BJ (Editors). Handbook of Medicine in Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Publishing, 2006; Spanish  Edition Manual de Medicina Para Psiquiatras, Elsevier/Masson, 2007.

Manu P. The Psychopathology of Functional Somatic Syndromes: Neurobiology and Illness Behavior, Haworth Medical Press, 2004.

Manu P. The Pharmacotherapy of Common Functional Syndromes: Evidence-Based Guidelines for Primary Care Practice, Haworth Medical Press, 2000.

Manu P (Editor). Functional Somatic Syndromes: Etiology, Diagnosis and Treatment, Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Most Cited Articles in the Web of Science Core Collection

JAMA-Journal of the American Medical Association (659 citations)

Schizophrenia Research (178 citations)

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry (155 citations)

Journal Of Clinical Psychiatry (128 citations)

Bipolar Disorders (118 citations)

References

• https://www.webofscience.com/wos/woscc/citation-report/67e805ad-a829-44cd-adab-52164276b7f6-012e209b

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