Marty Makary
Dr. Martin "Marty" Makary is a physician, researcher and medical commentator. He is the Mark Ravitch Chair in Gastrointestinal Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and teaches health policy at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.
Dr. Makary speaks nationally on new technology in surgical care, quality and safety in medicine, and health policy. He is a regular medical guest on CNN and FOX News, and is the author of several books on public health and surgery, patient safety, quality of care, and health policy. His latest book, Unaccountable, will be coming out in the Fall of 2012.
Dr. Makary served in a leadership role at the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) Safe Surgery Saves Lives Initiative. He is a leading advocate for transparency in medicine and common-sense solutions to healthcare's problems, such as the Surgical Checklist, which he developed at Johns Hopkins.
His current research interests focus on the delivery of quality care, the science of medical errors and patient safety, international health, and health policy. He is internationally recognized for outcomes research and his work has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine and The New York Times.
Dr. Makary is also a champion for many innovative ideas in healthcare, including videotaping medical procedures so that patients can take home a copy for their records, lifting all restrictions on visiting hours in hospitals, as pioneered at Johns Hopkins, to promote family involvement, and allowing patients to see their doctor's notes in real-time.
He completed his education at Bucknell University, Thomas Jefferson University, and Harvard University and his general surgery residency at Georgetown University. He then completed advanced training in pancreas surgery at Johns Hopkins before joining the faculty as a GI surgeon.
Dr. Martin "Marty" Makary is a physician, researcher and medical commentator. He is the Mark Ravitch Chair in Gastrointestinal Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, and teaches health policy at the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health.
Dr. Makary speaks nationally on new technology in surgical care, quality and safety in medicine, and health policy. He is a regular medical guest on CNN and FOX News, and is the author of several books on public health and surgery, patient safety, quality of care, and health policy. His latest book, Unaccountable, will be coming out in the Fall of 2012.
Dr. Makary served in a leadership role at the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) Safe Surgery Saves Lives Initiative. He is a leading advocate for transparency in medicine and common-sense solutions to healthcare's problems, such as the Surgical Checklist, which he developed at Johns Hopkins.
His current research interests focus on the delivery of quality care, the science of medical errors and patient safety, international health, and health policy. He is internationally recognized for outcomes research and his work has been published in The New England Journal of Medicine and The New York Times.
Dr. Makary is also a champion for many innovative ideas in healthcare, including videotaping medical procedures so that patients can take home a copy for their records, lifting all restrictions on visiting hours in hospitals, as pioneered at Johns Hopkins, to promote family involvement, and allowing patients to see their doctor's notes in real-time.
He completed his education at Bucknell University, Thomas Jefferson University, and Harvard University and his general surgery residency at Georgetown University. He then completed advanced training in pancreas surgery at Johns Hopkins before joining the faculty as a GI surgeon.
