President Donald Trump announced a new pick for surgeon general on Wednesday, nominating Dr. Casey Means for the position to replace Dr. Janette Nesheiwat just one day before her scheduled Senate confirmation hearing.

"Casey has impeccable 'MAHA' credentials and will work closely with our wonderful Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to ensure successful implementation of our agenda in order to reverse the chronic disease epidemic, and ensure Great Health, in the future, for ALL Americans," Trump said Wednesday in a post on his Truth Social platform. "Dr. Casey Means has the potential to be one of the finest Surgeon Generals in United States History."

"Her academic achievements, together with her life’s work, are absolutely outstanding," the president added. "Congratulations to Casey! Secretary Kennedy looks forward to working with Dr. Janette Nesheiwat in another capacity at HHS."

Means is a Stanford-trained physician and wellness influencer.

She left her surgical residency at Stanford Medical School to focus on lifestyle-based health interventions and has been vocal about the failures of what she calls a "sickcare" system driven by pharmaceutical interests.

She worked alongside her brother, Calley Means, to shape the administration's agenda surrounding health. She and her brother authored the book "Good Energy" in 2024 about the chronic disease epidemic.

Means and her brother also co-founded a health-tech company called Levels. Calley currently serves as a top special advisor to Secretary Kennedy, advocating for diet and exercise to combat chronic disease.

The surgeon general, known as “the nation’s doctor,” serves as the nation’s leading spokesperson on public health and operational head of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.

Nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, the Surgeon General provides Americans with scientific information to improve health and reduce illness and injury. The role, housed within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health in the Department of Health and Human Services, involves advocating for evidence-based health policies and addressing urgent public health issues, such as the opioid crisis or vaping epidemics

The surgeon general also serves in the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, overseeing the uniformed officers tasked with promoting the nation’s health.

Trump initially announced after taking office in January that he would nominate Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, a former Fox News contributor and New York family physician, to be surgeon general.

Means' nomination came the day before Nesheiwat's Senate confirmation hearing was slated to begin.

No details have been disclosed about why Nesheiwat's nomination was withdrawn, but she was under fire for her persistent advocacy of experimental COVID-19 shots.

As the New York Post reports, sources close to the White House said that Trump had been facing "massive backlash from the base" for nominating the CityMD medical director — with “all the MAHA people, all the anti-COVID [vaccine] people, all the frontline doctors opposed her from the start.

In op-eds written for Fox News, Nesheiwat urged Americans to adopt strict COVID mitigation measures such as “wearing two masks.”

“Everyone hated her,” one source said of Nesheiwat, adding that “Casey Means being so close to RFK means no one can oppose [her].”

But Trump stated in his post that Secretary Kennedy "looks forward to working with Dr. Janette Nesheiwatt in another capacity at HHS."

Nesheiwat followed up on X, stating she is also "looking forward" to continuing to support Trump while working "in a senior policy role" alongside Secretary Kennedy.

"My focus continues to be on improving the health and well-being of all Americans, and that mission hasn’t changed," she wrote.

Nesheiwat is the sister-in-law of recently fired National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, who was relieved of duty last week after he inadvertently added a journalist to a messaging app group chat about highly sensitive military strikes. 

The president recently nominated Walz to be the next ambassador to the United Nations after dropping his initial nominee, New York GOP Congresswoman Elise Stefanik.

Frontline doctors who warned against the dangers of government-mandated COVID protocols are slamming the Trump administration for selecting Means for the Surgeon General role.

"The new Surgeon General has never called for the COVID shots to be pulled off the market," fumed Dr. Mary Bowden, founder of Americans for Health Freedom. "That's why she was picked. I know the other frontrunner well, who was not picked because of this issue. Kennedy is powerless.

Dr. Henry Ealy, a naturopathic doctor who treats Covid "vaccine" injured patients and filed a grand jury petition against the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the pandemic, warns that Means fails to cite a single study she references in her book.

"For a book that references so many studies, there isn't one cited reference in the entire book!" Ealy wrote on X. My team had to go digging through their website to find a PDF with the references.

"Why would you do that unless you didn't want people snooping around. I read about a book per week... NEVER seen this in my entire 26-year career."

Dr. Jack Kruse, a neurosurgeon, warned that all of the acknowledgments that Means references in her book are "WEF people who Calley and Casey met as kids."

"The agent on the book was Klaus Schwab's hand-picked operative," Kruse said.

Means’ nomination awaits Senate confirmation, requiring her to submit financial disclosure and ethics paperwork through the Office of Government Ethics before a hearing is scheduled.

The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, which was set to review Nesheiwat, will likely scrutinize Means’ qualifications and her alignment with Kennedy’s MAHA agenda.