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 * In 1990, she became the first hispanic woman to be apointed as a surgeon general. (scholastic)
 * As a child, she had a chronic illness that hurt her digestion. (scholastic)
 * She never forgot that experience she had when she was a child. (scholastic)
 * As a surgeon general, she especially campaiged for better care for children. (scholastic)
 * She also paid attention to the problems of alcoholism, smoking, aids, and violence. (scholastic)
 * She was born in August 23, 1944. (wikipedia)
 * She served as Commissioner of Health for the State of New York from 1999 to 2006. (wikipedia)
 * Novello was charged in a 20 count indictment on May 12, 2009. (wikpedia)
 * On June 26, 2009, in a peal deal with prosecutors, she pleaded guilty to one charge of filling a fake document. (wikipedia)
 * Born in Farjado, Puerto Rico. (wikipedia)
 * In 1979, Novello joined the Public Health Service and received a commission in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. (wikipedia)
 * Her first assignment was as a project officer at the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases of the National Institutes of Health. (wikipedia)
 * From 1976, she also held a clinical appointment in pediatrics at Georgetown University Hospital. (wikipedia)
 * She held various positions at NIH before being appointed to Assistant Surgeon General grade in the PHSCC. (wikipedia)
 * She made major contributions to the drafting and enactment of the Organ Transplantation Procurement Act of 1984. (wikipedia
 * Novello was appointed Surgeon General by President George H. W. Bush, beginning her tenure on March 9, 1990. (wikipedia)
 * During her tenure as Surgeon General, Novello focused her attention on the health of women. (wikipedia)
 * She was always involved in working with other organizations to promote immunization of children injury prevention efforts. (wikipedia)
 * She spoke out often and forcefully about illegal underage drinking. (wikipedia)
 * Novello also worked to discourage illegal tobacco use by young people, and repeatedly criticized the tobacco industry for appealing to the youth market. (wikipedia)
 * She was controversial among abortion rights. (wikipedia)
 * She left her spot as Surgeon General on June 30, 1993, with the administration of president Bill Clinton. (wikipedia)
 * After leaving the position of Surgeon General, Novello remained the regular corps of the Public Health Service. (wikipedia)
 * She was assigned the United Nations Children's Fund Special Representative for Health and Nutrition from 1993 to 1996 reverting to her permanent two star rank of rear admiral. (wikipedia)
 * In 1996, she became Visiting Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. (wikipedia)
 * She retired from the Public Health Service and the PHSCC shortly after with the grade of vice admiral. (wikipedia)
 * In 1999, [|Governor of New York] [|George Pataki] appointed Novello as the [|Commissioner of Health] for the State of [|New York] . (wikipedia)
 * She served until 2006. Since 2008, Novello has been vice president of Women and Children Health and Policy Affairs at Disney Children’s Hospital at Florida Hospital in [|Orlando], [|Florida] . [|[5]] (wikipedia)
 * Novello was married to former US Navy flight surgeon and psychiatrist, Joseph R. Novello. (wikipedia)
 * She was the sister-in-law of [|Saturday Night Live] alumnus [|Don Novello], creator of the character persona [|Father Guido Sarducci] . [|[7]] (wikipedia)
 * She was the sister-in-law of [|Saturday Night Live] alumnus [|Don Novello], creator of the character persona [|Father Guido Sarducci] . [|[7]] (wikipedia)

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**Antonia C. Novello**

Antonia C. Novello was born in August 23, 1944. She was born in Farjado, Puerto Rico. As a child she had a chronic illness that hurt her digestion. She never forgot about thisexperience she had as a child. She received her B.S. degree from the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras in 1965 and her M.D. degree from the University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine at San Juan in 1970. She then completed her internship and residency in nephrology at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor. Novello remained at Michigan in 1973-1974 on a fellowship in the Department of Internal Medicine, and spent the following year on a fellowship in the Department of Pediatrics at Georgetown University. From 1976 to 1978, she was in private practice in pediatrics in Springfield, Virginia. In 1978, Novello joined the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, her first assignment being as a project officer at the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). (Antonia C. Novello, wikipedia)

She held various positions at NIH, rising to the job of Deputy Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in 1986. She also served as Coordinator for AIDS Research for NICHD from September, 1987. In this role, she developed a particular interest in pediatric AIDS. During her years at NIH, Novello earned an M.P.H. degree from the John Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health in 1982. From 1976, she also held a clinical appointment in pediatrics at Georgetown University Hospital. Novello also made major contributions to the drafting and enactment of the Organ Transplantation Procurement Act of 1984 while assigned to the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. (Surgeon General). Antonia got picked to be Surgeon General by President Bush, she began on March 9, 1990. She was the first woman and the first Hispanic to hold the position. During she was a Surgeon General, Novello focused her attention on health of woman, children and minorities, underage drinking drinking, smoking, and AIDS. (Antonia C. Novello, Wikipedia)

She played an important part in Healthy Children Ready to Learn Initiative. She was always involved in working with other organizations to promote immunization of children and childhood injury prevention efforts. She spoke out most of the time about illegal underage drinking, and called upon the Health and Human Services Inspector General to issue eight reports on the subject. Antonia worked similarly to discourage illegal tobacco by young people, and criticized appealing to the youth market through use of cartoon characters. She remained the post as Surgeon General through June 30,1993. Then she served as the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) Special Representative for Health and Nutrition from 1993 to 1996. In 1996, she became Visiting Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins School Hygiene and Public Health. Dr. Novello became Commissioner of Health for the State of New York in 1999. (Antonia C. Novello, Surgeon General)

She served until 2006. Since 2008, Novello has been vice president of Woman and Children Health and Policy Affairs at Disney Children's Hospital at Florida Hospital in Orlando, Florida. A January 2009 report by the New York Inspector General's office claimed that during her seven-year tenure as New York State Health Commissioner, Novello routinely abused her authority over health department staff, turning her staff at the Health Department into her personal chauffeurs, porters and shopping assistants during her seven-year tenure. The Inspector General's office referred a criminal case against her to Albany County district attorney David Soares. On May 12, 2009, a felony was unsealed charging one count of defrauding the government, three counts of filing a false instrument and sixteen counts of theft of government services. She was to pay $22,500 in restitution, plus a $5,000 fine, and she had to to 250 hours of community service. She's a role model to all woman that want too be a Surgeon General. She was the first Hispanic Latino woman to a be Surgeon General. (Antonia C. Novello, Biography)

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