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Trump's FDA pick is surgeon and writer Martin Makary

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Makary is a physician at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore whose most recent book, Blind Spots: When Medicine Gets It Wrong , was published in September .

Makary would succeed Dr. Robert Califf , a cardiologist and researcher who had previously held the role of FDA commissioner in the Obama administration.

He would report to Trump 's pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services .

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