George A. Makar

Biography

Dr. George Makar is the Acting Associate Director for Therapeutic Review in the Division of Hepatology and Nutrition (DHN) at the FDA. He earned his medical degree from the University of Iowa and completed gastroenterology and transplant hepatology fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, where he joined the faculty in 2007. In 2009 he completed a Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology (MSCE) at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatics (CCEB) at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He maintained a broad-based transplant and non-transplant hepatology practice for 14 years during which he also served as medical director of the liver transplant program and director of the transplant hepatology fellowship. He joined the FDA in January of 2020 as a medical reviewer.