Trump Nominates Saphier for Surgeon General After Means Withdrawal

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he is nominating radiologist Dr. Nicole Saphier to serve as U.S. Surgeon General, following the withdrawal of his previous nominee, Dr. Casey Means, whose confirmation process stalled in the Senate.

Trump made the announcement in a post on Truth Social, describing Saphier as a "STAR physician who has spent her career guiding women facing breast cancer through their diagnosis and treatment while tirelessly advocating to increase early cancer detection and prevention." Saphier serves as director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering Monmouth in New Jersey. She holds a doctor of medicine degree from Ross University School of Medicine in Barbados and completed fellowships at the Mayo Clinic, according to her professional profile.

Means, a 38-year-old Stanford-educated physician, did not complete her surgical residency and lacks an active medical license. Nominated last May at the recommendation of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., she became a proponent of the Make America Healthy Again movement, advocating for reduced overmedicalization and greater emphasis on diet and lifestyle to address chronic...