The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) will hold a virtual confirmation hearing over the nomination of Casey Means to be U.S. surgeon general next week, five months after she was nominated.<\/p>\n
The HELP Committee said in an announcement that Means would appear before the panel virtually, calling in from Kilauea, Hawaii.<\/p>\n
President Trump nominated Means to be surgeon general in May, citing her “impeccable ‘MAHA’ credentials” as qualifying her for the role. The Stanford-educated doctor-turned-chronic disease entrepreneur is the sister of Calley Means, a close adviser to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/p>\n
Casey Means is a co-founder of Levels, a health technology company that focuses on tracking health information through devices. Kennedy is a proponent of wearable health devices, saying in a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing, “My vision is every American is wearing a wearable within four years.”<\/p>\n
Trump picked her after withdrawing his nomination of Janette Nesheiwat, whose credentials came under question. Means’s nomination was met with some opposition by former surgeons general and those within the “Make America Health Again,” or MAHA, space.<\/p>\n