WASHINGTON — Well being secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has elevated a senior well being official to function an interim surgeon normal till that place is stuffed by a Senate-confirmed nominee.
Stephanie Haridopolos, a household medication doctor who’s presently a senior adviser and chief of employees for the Workplace of the U.S. Surgeon Normal, is now the workplace’s director of well being communications, Kennedy advised employees in an electronic mail despatched late Tuesday. Based on that electronic mail, Assistant Secretary for Well being Brian Christine used his “delegation of authority powers” to permit Haridopolos to hold out the duties of surgeon normal.
She’s going to “promote [U.S. Surgeon General] public well being actions, advisories, and steerage till our subsequent Surgeon Normal is sworn into workplace,” Kennedy stated.
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