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14th Surgeon General of the United States

Antonia Coello Novello (born August 23, 1944) is a Puerto Rican physician and public health administrator.

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She was a vice admiral in the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as 14th Surgeon General of the United States from 1990 to 1993. Novello was the first woman and first Hispanic to serve as Surgeon General. Novello also served as Commissioner of Health for the State of New York from 1999 to 2006.

Novello has received numerous awards including more than fifty honorary degrees, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2000, and has been inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.^[1] Her memoir, Duty Calls: Lessons Learned from an Unexpected Life of Service, was published in 2024.^[2]

Early life

Antonia Novello, born on August 23, 1944, in Fajardo, Puerto Rico, was the oldest of two children; she also had a half-brother.

After her divorce, her mother, Ana Delia Fl