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Marty Makary

Martin Adel Makary is a British-American surgeon, professor, author, and medical commentator. He practices surgical oncology and gastrointestinal laparoscopic surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, is Mark Ravitch Chair in Gastrointestinal Surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and teaches public health policy as Professor of Surgery and Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Makary is an advocate for disruptive innovation in medicine and physician-led initiatives, such as ''The Surgical Checklist'', which he developed at Johns Hopkins and which was later popularized in Atul Gawande’s best-selling book ''The Checklist Manifesto''. Makary was named one of the most influential people in healthcare by ''HealthLeader'' magazine in 2013. In 2018, Makary was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Makary was an early advocate for universal masking to control the pandemic and recommended vaccines for adults. However, he was an outspoken opponent of broad COVID-19 vaccine mandates and, in late 2021 and early 2022, non-pharmaceutical interventions meant to reduce transmission in schools and universities. Provided by Wikipedia