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President Trump volition nominate Dr. Casey Means to service arsenic U.S. surgeon general, helium announced Wednesday — soon aft the White House withdrew the president's earlier prime of Dr. Janette Nesheiwat for the cardinal nationalist wellness post.
Mr. Trump said successful a Truth Social station that Means "has impeccable 'MAHA' credentials" — referring to the acronym for "Make America Healthy Again," a slogan utilized by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
"Her world achievements, unneurotic with her life's work, are perfectly outstanding," Mr. Trump wrote. "Dr. Casey Means has the imaginable to beryllium 1 of the finest Surgeon Generals successful United States History."
Means' website says she graduated from Stanford Medical School. She trained arsenic a surgeon but dropped it to absorption connected functional medicine and co-founded Levels, a wellness app that tin connect to glucose monitors. She has built a ample pursuing arsenic a wellness and wellness influencer.
Casey Means was adjacent to Kennedy during the run on with her brother, Calley Means, who played a cardinal relation successful orchestrating Kennedy's endorsement of President Trump, according to aggregate Kennedy allies who played a relation successful the transition.
The 2 siblings authored the bestseller "Good Energy" aft their parent died of pancreatic cancer, arguing that "metabolism is astatine the basal of illness and the incentives that pb our existent strategy to disregard it."
Calley Means present serves arsenic a peculiar authorities employee, advising Kennedy. Casey Means was initially favored arsenic a contender for the surgeon wide pick, immoderate of Kennedy's allies said, but was initially passed implicit for Nesheiwat.
Some of Kennedy's allies said they believed Nesheiwat's appearances connected Fox News and her ties to Mike Waltz — the erstwhile nationalist information adviser, who is joined to Nesheiwat's sister Julia — played a relation successful that pick.
The U.S. surgeon wide oversees 6,000 members of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, which is portion of the Department of Health and Human Services, and plays a cardinal relation successful mounting the nationalist docket connected nationalist health. The nominee indispensable beryllium confirmed by the Senate.
Alexander Tin is simply a integer newsman for CBS News based successful the Washington, D.C. bureau. He covers national nationalist wellness agencies.
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