Becker's Healthcare November 26, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the FDA is not only a pancreatic surgeon and professor at Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine but also a telehealth executive.
Here are six things to know:
1. Mr. Trump nominated Marty Makary, MD, on Nov. 22 to head the FDA.
2. Dr. Makary is chief medical officer of Sesame, a telehealth startup founded in 2020 that offers virtual urgent care and remote prescribing of weight loss drugs such as GLP-1s.
3. Sesame facilitates prescriptions of compounded versions of the popular weight loss medications. At least one large health system has expressed...
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