White House Replaces Surgeon General Nomination: Report

The Trump administration pulled the nomination of Dr. Janette Nesheiwat to be surgeon general following reports that she inflated her credentials, Bloomberg reported.

President Donald Trump instead nominated Dr. Casey Means on Wednesday, saying Means “will work closely with our wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to ensure a successful implementation of our Agenda in order to reverse the Chronic Disease Epidemic, and ensure Great Health, in the future, for ALL Americans.”

Means attended Stanford Medical School, then she pursued a surgical residency at Oregon Health & Science University. Before completing the program, she dropped out to start her own functional medicine practice and founded the company Levels, which offers consumers continuous glucose monitors and an app to track their blood sugar.

Means’ brother, Calley Means, is a prominent advisor to Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The former nominee, Nesheiwat, has described herself as a double board-certified physician with a degree from the University of Arkansas School of Medicine. But Nesheiwat actually earned her medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, in St. Maarten. 

Nesheiwat has also been criticized by conservatives for touting the idea that children can identity as a gender that differs from their biological sex.

“But the most important thing of all of this is no matter what gender your child identifies as, accept them and love them for who they are,” she said on Fox News in 2022. 

Nesheiwat’s nomination hearing was scheduled for May 8 before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee.

Nesheiwat’s sister Julia is married to Mike Waltz, who was recently moved from national security advisor to the nominee for United Nations ambassador.

Nesheiwat’s positions on vaccines differ from that of the Health and Human Services secretary.

Nesheiwat has previously described the COVID vaccine as a “gift from God.”

“I’m optimistic we are on our way to ending the needless loss of lives starting with the nothing short of miraculous coronavirus vaccine and the development of therapeutics,” she wrote in an opinion piece published in Fox News in 2021.

“We have many vaccines in existence that treat a variety of non-life-threatening diseases,” she continued, “but to have a COVID vaccine, i.e. a Pfizer or Moderna mRNA that will actually save you from dying is a gift from God.”

Kennedy has called the same immunization the “deadliest ever made.”

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