Trump pulls surgeon general nominee after questions about medical education

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Trump pulls surgeon general nominee after questions about medical education

US Vice President JD Vance, from left, Pam Bondi, US attorney general, Chris Wright, US energy secretary, Janette Nesheiwat, US surgeon general nominee for US President Donald Trump, and Lee Zeldin, administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025.

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was withdrawing his nomination of former Fox News medical contributor Dr. 

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as U.S. surgeon general, a move that followed questions about her

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history.

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said he would nominate Dr. Casey Means for surgeon general.

The president said Nesheiwat will work at the Department of Health and Human Services “in another capacity.”

Trump announced that Neshewwat was no longer his nominee for surgeon general a day before she was set to appear for her confirmation hearing at the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.

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first raised questions about Neishewat’s education claims in a post on Substack.

CBS News, citing records it reviewed, last week reported that Neishewat, who had said she had a degree from the University of Arkansa School of Medicine, actually earned her medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean (AUC) School of Medicine, located in St. Maarten, in the Caribbean.”

“A spokesperson for the University of Arkansas confirmed to CBS News she completed her residency through its family medicine program in Fayetteville, Arkansas, but did not obtain her medical degree there,” the network reported.

Nesheiwat’s nomination is the second high-ranking health official pick of Trump’s to be withdrawn this year.

The nomination of former Florida Rep. Dave Weldon to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was yanked in March.

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