Antonia Novello
Physician, Politician
1944 –
Who is Antonia Novello?
Antonia Coello Novello, M.D., is a Puerto Rican physician and public health administrator. She was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as fourteenth Surgeon General of the United States from 1990 to 1993. Novello is the first woman and first Hispanic to serve as Surgeon General.
Novello served as Commissioner of Health for the State of New York from 1999 to 2006. Novello was charged in a 20 count indictment on May 12, 2009, in New York with theft of government services, defrauding the government and filing a false instrument. On June 26, 2009, in a plea deal with prosecutors, she pleaded guilty to one charge of filing a false document involving a worker’s duties.
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- Born
- Aug 23, 1944
Fajardo - Also known as
- Dr. Antonia Novello
- Spouses
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Profession
- Education
- Johns Hopkins University
- University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
- Lived in
- Fajardo
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on July 23, 2013
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