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 * Antonia Novello: Historic Physician**

There is usually someone in history that stirs up a lot of attention that are not really American. There would be someone from Russia that made history, or China, or somewhere near South America, or in Africa. Right now, we're focusing on the Hispanic people in history, in the science and technology category. There are quite a few people who have attracted attention in the science and technology part of history that are Hispanic. There is one person though that caught the edge of my eye, that would be Antonia Novello. She was a Puerto Rican physician and public health administrator. This is how her life was and what she did.

Antonia w as born on August 23, 1944, in Farjado, Puerto Rico. Fajardo is the hub of the majority of recreational boating in Puerto Rico and a popular launching port to Culebra, Vieques, and the American and British Virgin Islands. It is also the home to the largest Marina in the Caribbean, called Puerto del Rey. The town contains various hotels and inns. Overall, Antonia was born as a wealthy child.

Later on in life, around 1979, Antonia joined the Public Health Service. Later on she received a commission into the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, or the PHSCC for short. One of her first jobs at the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps was as a project officer at the National Institute of Arthritis, Metabolism and Digestive Diseases of the National Institutes of Health, or the NIH (Wheeler Jill C.). In 1982, during Novello's years at the National Institutes of Health, Antonia worked on an MPH degree at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. She received that degree in the same year.

Novello held various positions at NIH before being appointed to Assistant Surgeon General grade in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and assignment as the Deputy Director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) in 1986. She also served as Coordinator for AIDS Research for National Institute of Child Health and Human Development from September 1987. In this role, she developed a particular interest in pediatric AIDS, which caught the attention of the White House.

By catching the attention of the White House, our good old president, George H. W. Bush, appointed Antonia as Surgeon General (FactMonster). She began her tenure on March 9, 1990, and was appointed to the temporary rank of vice admiral in the regular corps while the Surgeon General. She was the first woman and the first Hispanic to hold the position (Scholastic). During her time as a Surgeon General, Antonia focused her attention on the health of women, children and minorities, as well as on underage drinking, smoking, and AIDS. Novello discouraged the use of illegal tobacco used by young people, as we all know as the minors. Novello also disputed about abortion rights advocates due to her support of a policy prohibiting family planning program workers who received federal financing from discussing abortion with their patients. Novello decided to no longer be a Surgeon General on June 30, 1993, with Bill Clinton praising her for her vigor and talent.

After deciding to leave her post of Surgeon General, Antonia remained in the regular corps of the Public Health Service. She was then assigned the United Nations Children's Fund Special Representative for Health and Nutrition from 1993 to 1996. She was then reverted to her permanent two star rank of rear admiral. In 1999, Governor of New York George Pataki appointed Novello as the Commissioner of Health for the State of New York. 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.

"24 X 7." //Antonia Coello Novello //. Pearson Education, Inc., 2007. Web. 13 May 2014. . This site was very useful for me. It taught me a lot about Antonia Novello, and it is a very useful site for other information.

"Discovery History Makers-Before 1901-1949." //Discovery History Makers-Before 1901-1949 //. Scholastic, n.d. Web. 12 May 2014. . This site was perfect for my research. It gave me lots of information about Novello, and has lots more information to use.

Wheeler, Jill C. "Antonia Novello: Fantastic Physician [Book]." Abdo Group, 1 Aug. 2012. Web. This book was a very big help. It gave me tons of information for Novello and her life as a physician.