Marty Makary
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Marty Makary
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27th Commissioner of the F.D.A.; New York Times Bestselling Author; Healthcare Futurist
Dr. Makary is passionate about addressing the root causes behind our health and affordability crises. The only recent health nominee confirmed by a bipartisan vote of the U.S. Senate, Makary drew on his experience as a Johns Hopkins surgeon and health policy expert to lead historic reforms, such as re-writing the food pyramid, removing artificial food dyes, educating women about HRT, accelerating drug approvals, and advancing AI safely.
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Dr. Marty Makary is a New York Times bestselling author, surgeon, and healthcare expert who served as the 27th U.S. Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, confirmed with a bipartisan vote of the U.S. Senate.
Marty is the recipient of the 2020 Business Book of the Year Award for his book, THE PRICE WE PAY, about healthcare costs, and his latest book, BLIND SPOTS—a #1 bestseller—explores nutrition science, the microbiome, menopausal hormone replacement, and new health trends.
As a bestselling author, Marty has a unique ability to make healthcare topics relatable so that they connect with both healthcare and non-healthcare audiences alike. Along the way, he educates audiences about the future of healthcare, AI, and the latest science on healthy living.
At the FDA, Marty led historic reforms, including accelerating drug approvals, reducing animal testing, creating a new food pyramid, removing artificial food dyes, and implementing a school lunch program to transition to healthier foods. He was also the first head of a government agency to adopt AI agency-wide. Prior to serving in government, Marty was a professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Business School.
At Johns Hopkins, Marty was the Chief of Islet Transplant Surgery, pioneered new surgical procedures, and founded the Johns Hopkins Center for Surgical Trials and Outcomes Research. For his achievements, Marty received the Nobility in Science Award from the National Pancreas Foundation and was named the Mark Ravitch Endowed Chair of Gastrointestinal Surgery at Johns Hopkins. Marty has been a visiting professor at more than 25 medical schools and served in leadership at the World Health Organization. He has published more than 350 scientific peer-reviewed articles and, in 2019, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.
Marty has led national policy efforts to make healthcare more affordable, more holistic, and more coordinated, especially for vulnerable populations. His research has focused on the evaluation of new technologies, the appropriateness of medical care, and the business of medicine. He was co-founder of Global Appropriateness Measures, a national effort to reduce unnecessary surgery and medication prescribing. He also served as Chief Medical Officer of H-E-B, with a focus on healthy food and disease prevention. His current work focuses on game-changing interventions in healthcare and new models of care that reduce downstream medical utilization and lower healthcare costs.
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The Future of Health Care
Several black swan moments are about to change healthcare. With a bird’s-eye view of the latest devices and drugs positioned to revolutionize medicine and drawing on his experience modernizing AI regulation and advancing healthy foods, Dr. Makary describes the unique opportunity organizations have today. Using his characteristic humor and a conversational style, Dr. Makary explains the current health and cost trends and the innovations positioned to reverse them and create a new path forward. In an era of political polarization, the solutions are surprisingly non-political.
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Two Types of Healthcare Innovation
Dr. Makary reviews the entire healthcare business landscape so that leaders can better succeed in it. He points out how Innovation is the most overused word in healthcare. Using powerful examples, Makary unpacks the two types of innovation: The first is gadget Innovation that addresses small pain points and can distract from the real issues driving our healthcare crisis. The second is Impact Innovation, defined as innovation that actually improves health or lowers total healthcare spend. Drawing on his wide-ranging experiences, Dr. Makary calls on leaders in healthcare to focus on Impact and explains how it is currently being done by positive disruptors leading the way.
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Restoring American Scientific Leadership
The recent exodus of biotech, device, and health technology companies to China and other countries has created a new threat to the American scientific community. Dr. Makary presents data on current and future trends in the new competitive world marketplace, as well as new efforts aimed at restoring the U.S. as the world leader in medical science. Streamlining regulation and prioritizing research on game-changing big ideas, he argues, is part of the solution.
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The New Science of Health
More medications are not the answer to our nation’s health crisis. A movement to restore human health is alive and well, with new science to support it. At the FDA, Dr. Makary spearheaded the re-writing of the nutrition guidelines for Americans, putting into focus real food and calling out food chemicals and ultraprocessed foods that have become so pervasive. A deep dive into nutrition and regulatory changes, Makary explains the health food revolution and how our current sickness care system is turning into a healthcare system.
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Blind Spots
Drawing on his latest #1 bestselling book, Dr. Marty Makary asks, Could it be that many modern-day health crises have been caused by the hubris of the medical establishment? Experts said for decades that opioids were not addictive, igniting the opioid crisis. They refused menopausal women hormone replacement therapy, causing unnecessary suffering. They demonized natural fat in foods, driving Americans to processed carbohydrates as obesity rates soared. They ignited the modern-day peanut allergy epidemic by giving bad advice. And they told citizens that there are no downsides to antibiotics and prescribed them liberally, causing a drug-resistant bacteria crisis. When modern medicine issues recommendations based on good scientific studies, it shines. Conversely, when modern medicine is interpreted through the harsh lens of opinion and edict, it can mold beliefs that harm patients and stunt research for decades. Dr. Makary explores the latest research on critical topics ranging from the microbiome to childbirth to nutrition and longevity and more, revealing the biggest blind spots of modern medicine and tackling the most urgent yet unsung issues in our $5 trillion healthcare ecosystem. The path to medical mishaps can be absurd, entertaining, and jaw-dropping—but the truth is essential to our health.
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The Grassroots Movement to Fix Healthcare
As everyday Americans face rising healthcare costs and physicians face declining reimbursements, our current system desperately needs big ideas, such as radical transparency, re-alignment of incentives, and a look at why other countries have populations that feel better and live longer. Dr. Makary presents solutions that people can participate in today to drive better health and fix the broken system.
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