A longtime Johns Hopkins surgeon and best-selling author, he has advised the World Health Organization and been elected to the National Academy of Medicine. (Makary, whose confirmation hearings kicked off in the Senate this morning,

If confirmed to lead the Food and Drug Administration, will Dr. Marty Makary carry out Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s plans to disrupt the medical establishment, or would he be a check on it?

Marty Makary, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Food and Drug Administration, said he’s ready to carry out the mission of instituting “radical transparency” called for by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F.

A Senate committee will vote Thursday on whether to endorse Dr. Marty Makary as the new commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration.

Dr. Marty Makary, nominee to be commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), appears before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for his confirmation hearing on Thursday, March 6, 2025, in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Marty Makary, President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FDA, will face the lawmakers standing between him and Senate confirmation on Thursday.

Dr. Marty Makary will testify before the Senate health committee on Thursday. Lawmakers may press him over staff reductions and changes in agency direction on issues like vaccines.

Marty Makary, MD, MPH, rose to national attention by skewering the medical establishment in books and papers and bashing the federal response to COVID-19 on TV. Now the Johns Hopkins University surgeon and researcher has been nominated to lead the FDA.

Sitting before senators at his confirmation hearing to become commissioner of the FDA, Johns Hopkins surgeon and author Martin Makary, M.D., linked certain wearable technologies to the “M | Awaiting confirmation to become FDA commissioner,