{"id":3645,"date":"2025-05-07T23:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T23:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/trump-picks-casey-means-maha-influencer-for-surgeon-general-post\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T23:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T23:02:21","slug":"trump-picks-casey-means-maha-influencer-for-surgeon-general-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/trump-picks-casey-means-maha-influencer-for-surgeon-general-post\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Trump nominates Casey Means, entrepreneurial doctor and MAHA leader, for surgeon general"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    STAT+: Trump nominates Casey Means, entrepreneurial doctor and MAHA leader, for surgeon general<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The health entrepreneur and \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d leader Casey Means has been nominated to be the U.S. surgeon general after President Trump pulled his prior nominee suddenly on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Means, an M.D. and author who runs a holistic wellness blog and co-founded the health tech company Levels, is the sister of Calley Means, an adviser to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2024\/10\/07\/calley-means-casey-means-conservative-voices-of-chronic-disease-crisis\/\">Both Meanses<\/a> have become key influencers in the MAHA world, with Casey lending her medical training and knowledge to the cause.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s original nominee to the post of surgeon general was Janette Nesheiwat, a medical doctor and Fox News contributor. The White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/05\/07\/janette-nesheiwat-white-house-withdraws-nomination-surgeon-general\/\">withdrew her nomination<\/a> a day before Nesheiwat was scheduled to appear before a key Senate committee. She came under fire in recent weeks for previous comments she\u2019d made online in support of the Covid vaccine and masking during the pandemic. CBS News also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-surgeon-general-nominee-dr-janette-nesheiwat-credentials\/\">reported<\/a> that Nesheiwat received her medical degree from a school in the Caribbean, not, as she claimed, the University of Arkansas School of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/05\/07\/trump-picks-casey-means-maha-influencer-for-surgeon-general-post\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Continue to STAT+ to read the full story\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Isabella Cueto<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/05\/07\/trump-picks-casey-means-maha-influencer-for-surgeon-general-post\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT+: Trump nominates Casey Means, entrepreneurial doctor and MAHA leader, for surgeon general The health entrepreneur and \u201cMake America Healthy Again\u201d leader Casey Means has been nominated to be the U.S. surgeon general after President Trump pulled his prior nominee suddenly on Wednesday.\u00a0 Means, an M.D. and author who runs a holistic wellness blog and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2362,2177,1428,2144,2149,2152,2185],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-3645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chronic-disease","category-donald-trump","category-health","category-politics","category-rfk-jr","category-stat","category-white-house","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}