Primary Education Topic:
Healthcare & Aging
Other Education Topics:
Aging in Community
Health & Wellness
Where are we making progress and what remains to be done toward achieving transparency in healthcare?
Dr. Martin Makary is chief of Islet Transplantation Surgery and a professor of Health Policy & Management at John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland, as well as a medical commentator for Fox News and NBC’s TODAY show. He created the surgical checklist later made popular by Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto (New York: Picador, 2011), and chaired the World Health Organization’s technical workgroup on measuring surgical quality worldwide.