"FDA has lost the trust of Americans, and has lost sight of its primary goal as a regulator," Trump said in a statement late Friday, adding Makary would "course-correct" the agenc

President-elect Trump has picked Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins’s surgeon who has espoused contrarian views about the COVID-19 pandemic, to lead the Federal Drug Administration. Makary is a surgical oncologist at Johns Hopkins University and an author.

Makary, a vocal critic of the federal government’s response to Covid-19, would oversee the federal agency charged with approving all new drugs.

President-elect Trump on Friday selected Johns Hopkins professor Marty Makary to lead the Food and Drug Administration. Why it matters: Makary has long advocated for reforms to the health care system and gained prominence during the pandemic for his criticisms of parts of the federal response.