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Nurse Appointed Acting Surgeon General


Nurse Appointed Acting Surgeon General

Date Posted: Wednesday, June 21, 2017

 

Meet Rear Adm. Sylvia Trent-Adams, RN, Ph.D., FAAN

With the recent exit of Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, M.D., MBA, America’s acting surgeon general is now a nurse: Rear Adm. Sylvia Trent-Adams, RN, Ph.D., FAAN. 

Until the White House fired Murthy on April 21, Trent-Adams was deputy surgeon general, a post she had held since October 2015. She is only the second nurse - and the only practicing RN - to serve as U.S. surgeon general. (The first was George W. Bush's first surgeon general, Richard H. Carmona, M.D., MPH, FACS, who was a nurse before he became a physician.)

Source: Working Nurse

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