Trump's surgeon general pick promotes misleading claims about her education, new investigation shows
Source: The Independent
Trump’s surgeon general pick promotes misleading claims about her education, new investigation shows
Dr. Jannette Nesheiwat wrote in a 2018 social media post, that she had completed her “medical training and residency” at Arkansas as well as serving as Chief Resident
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Friday 25 April 2025 18:46 BST
Questions are swirling about the background of President’s Donald Trump’s pick for Surgeon General and whether she has presented misleading claims about where she was educated.
Dr Jannette Nesheiwat has been described by the president as “a double board-certified medical doctor,” and a “proud graduate of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences.”
Prior to her nomination as Surgeon General she has been employed as a New York City medical director with CityMD, a group of urgent care facilities and also has appeared on Fox News and other TV shows.
However, according to CBS News, Nesheiwat only completed her residency through the university’s family medicine program in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and did not obtain her medical degree there.
She actually earned her degree from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, in St. Maarten, ...
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Nesheiwat’s childhood was also beset with tragedy after she was involved in an incident that killed her father. She was 13 years-old when she accidentally knocked a loaded gun over, which fired and fatally shot her father in the head.
Nesheiwat is also the sister-in-law of Michael Waltz, who serves as Trump’s national security adviser and was responsible for accidentally adding a journalist to a private Signal group chat, in which classified war plans were shared.
