Trump Picks Nicole Saphier for Surgeon General After Withdrawing Casey Means Nomination

Scritto il 01/05/2026
da Sheryl Gay Stolberg and Dani Blum

Dr. Means’s nomination had stalled in part over her views on vaccines. The president said he was instead nominating Dr. Nicole B. Saphier, a radiologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.The withdrawal of Dr. Casey Means’s nomination is bound to be a deep disappointment for the Make America Healthy Again movement.