Marty Makary Seen as Leading Candidate for Trump FDA Pick

  • Johns Hopkins surgeon known for questioning medical orthodoxy
  • Makary has defended Trump HHS pick Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Surgeon and author Marty Makary is seen as the leading candidate to run the US Food and Drug Administration under President-elect Donald Trump, people familiar with the matter said.

Makary, a pancreatic surgeon at Johns Hopkins Medicine, is a health researcher whose latest book focuses on questioning medical orthodoxy on topics from peanut allergies to antibiotics.