Education
MD
MPH
Overview
Dr. Makary is a surgical oncologist and chief of the Johns Hopkins Islet Transplant Center. He serves as Executive Director of Improving Wisely, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation project to lower health care costs in the U.S. by creating measures of appropriateness in health care.
Dr. Makary’s research focuses on the creation and evaluation of new health care innovations. He is the creator of the Surgery Checklist, publishing its first description and later served on the W.H.O. Safe Surgery Saves Lives committee. He led the W.H.O. workgroup to create global measures of surgical quality. Dr. Makary has published over 250 scientific articles, including the first description of “frailty” impacting surgical outcomes, the original studies on safety culture measurement in hospitals, the first study of hospitals suing patients for unpaid bills, and an evaluation of the Orphan Drug Act.
He is a leading voice for physicians, writing in The Wall Street Journal, and is the author of The New York Times best-selling author. His book THE PRICE WE PAY is a primer on the business of medicine, and his book Unaccountable is about patient safety and physician-led transparency efforts in health care. Dr. Makary is the founder of the Johns Hopkins Center For Surgical Outcomes Research and Clinical Trials and is the recipient of numerous grants to evaluate the effectiveness of new surgical technology and new interventions in health care.
He serves jointly as a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and a professor of health policy & management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has pioneered new pancreas operations at Johns Hopkins, including the laparoscopic Whipple procedure. He performed the first series of laparoscopic islet auto-transplantation and other laparoscopic operations in field of surgery. He is the recipient of the National Pancreas Foundation Nobility in Science Award.
Honors and Awards
Member, The National Academy of Medicine
Best Teacher Award, Georgetown Univeristy
Nobility in Science Award, National Pancreas Foundation
Dennis Jahnigan Research Award, American Geriatrics Society
Smartest People in Health Care, Becker's Review
Diplomat, American Board of Surgery
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