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.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he has picked Dr. Martin Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon as Food and Drug Administration commissioner. “FDA has lost the trust of Americans and has lost sight of its primary goal as a regulator,” Trump ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday nominated Dr. Marty Makary, a pancreatic surgeon at Johns Hopkins University, as commissioner of the FDA.