President-elect Trump has tapped Johns Hopkins surgeon Martin “Marty” Makary, who has made a name for himself by challenging status quo ideas in the medical establishment, to serve as the next commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.
Trump announced the pick on Truth Social, where he said Makary would guide the agency to address “harmful” chemicals and pharmaceuticals to combat childhood chronic illnesses.
Makary will “restore FDA to the Gold Standard of Scientific Research, and cut the bureaucratic red tape at the Agency to make sure Americans get the Medical Cures and Treatments they deserve,” Trump said in a statement.
Dr. Martin A. Makary, also known as Marty Makary, has degrees from several universities, including: Bucknell University, Thomas Jefferson University, Harvard University, Georgetown University, and Johns Hopkins University.
MD: Received from Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in 1998
MPH: Received from Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health in 1998, with a concentration in health policy
Surgical residency: Completed at Georgetown University
Pancreas surgery training: Completed at Johns Hopkins
Dr. Makary is a health care expert and professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins University. He's also the president and CEO of the National Quality Forum.
Makary is a close ally of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick for Health and Human Services secretary. Both positions require Senate confirmation. Makary and RFK Jr. are proponents of the “Make America Healthy Again” movement, which aims to end chronic disease by improving the nation’s food supply and rooting out corruption in health care.
As leader of the FDA, Makary would be in charge of regulating food, drugs, medical devices, and tobacco products. He would answer to RFK Jr., whose FDA agenda, based on his public statements, might include loosening regulation of raw milk, applying extra scrutiny to vaccine safety data, and pushing to eliminate drug and device company user fees that help fund the agency. Those user fees are set by Congress.
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