President-elect Donald Trump announced late this week that he has selected Marty Makary MD, MPH, FACS, to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
“FDA has lost the trust of Americans, and has lost sight of its primary goal as a regulator,” Trump said in a statement. “The Agency needs Dr. Marty Makary, a Highly Respected Johns Hopkins Surgical Oncologist and Health Policy Expert, to course-correct and refocus the Agency.”
Trump noted that Makary will work under the leadership of Trump’s nominee for HHS Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to “properly evaluate harmful chemicals poisoning our Nation’s food supply and drugs and biologics being given to our Nation’s youth, so that we can finally address the Childhood Chronic Disease Epidemic.”
Trump’s nomination of Makary comes at the same time that he announced he was nominating Dr. Janette Nesheiwat to serve as the…
