Marty Makary

Who is Marty Makary?

Martin “Marty” Makary is a physician, New York Times Best Selling author and television medical commentator. Makary has also written articles for the Wall Street Journal, Time, and Newsweek Magazine and CNN. He practices advanced laparoscopic surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital and teaches health policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Makary is known as an international expert in patient safety and served in a leadership role at the United Nations World Health Organization for the Safe Surgery Saves Lives initiative. In 2013, Makary was named one of the most influential people in healthcare by Health Magazine.

Makary is an advocate for transparency in medicine and common-sense solutions to healthcare’s problems, such as The Surgical Checklist, which he developed at Johns Hopkins, and which was popularized in Atul Gawande’s best-selling book Checklist Manifesto. In 2013, Makary testified to the U.S. Congress on the need for more transparency in healthcare, including access of data to medical researchers, repeal of the SGR, and the release of government funded research to the public.