SURGEON GENERAL
Janette Nesheiwat
Qualifications: A family medicine physician, assistant medical director of CityMD, a private urgent care provider chain, and a medical contributor to Fox News. She is the daughter of Christian Jordanian immigrants.
Disqualifications: Has never worked in government or been in charge of a large federal bureaucracy. An outspoken Christian, she claimed Jesus and prayer led to miraculous recoveries in sick patients she discussed in her Christian memoir, Beyond the Stethoscope: Miracles in Medicine.
Views: She does believe in Covid vaccines and vaccinations for infectious diseases.
Nesheiwat self-promotes a line of dietary supplements, BC Boost. A fervent Christian activist, she credits Jesus for guiding her work, including medical missions to disaster zones such as quake-ravaged Haiti and helping Ukrainian refugees.