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Former U. Surgeon General visits MD School. Antonia C. Novello Orgullo Hispano on Univision. August 23 Daily Almanac. Growing up, she was raised primarily by her mother, Ana Delia Flores because her father died when she was eight years old. At birth, Novello was diagnosed with Congenital megacolon, a painful condition that required Novello to make frequent trips to the hospital. Although Novello was told at eight years old that she should have surgery to correct her problem, it would take another 10 years before such an operation would happen.
Nevertheless, Novello managed to excel in her study to become a doctor. Her experience with that disease, left such an impact on her that she vowed to become a doctor so that "no other person is going to wait 18 years for surgery. At an early age, Novello's mother, a school teacher and later high school principal, stressed the importance of an education.
Novello excelled in her education and graduated from high school at the age of That same year, she married Joseph R. Novello and they both moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan where she continued her medical studies. Once informed, however, her mother vowed to provide the financial support toward her daughter's aspiration, and Novello received her medical degree in That same year she wed Joseph R. Novello, a Navy flight surgeon who later became a psychiatrist.
Novello's was in pediatrics, and she completed further training in her specialty, pediatric nephrology, at Georgetown University Hospital in Her childhood illness had made her an unusually compassionate physician, but would also be her undoing.
For a time in the mids, she had a pediatric practice specializing in kidney health, but took her job to heart. In , Novello considered joining the U. Navy, but was discouraged by a male recruiter. Instead she signed on with the U. Public Health Service in The PHS is a quasi-military corps of doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel who conduct research, serve in areas where there are shortages of doctors such as on Native American reservations , and assist in national disaster relief.
By the early s, she was a serving as a Congressional fellow, lending her expertise to the staff of Capitol Hill legislators drafting health-related legislation. Four years later she was promoted to deputy director of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development in , which effectively combined her pediatrics training with a desire to assist and act for those who could not. In her new job, she became a prominent activist for pediatric AIDS research, and executed her duties with zeal and zest for the job, certain that her post was the apex of her ambitions.
Yet when Novello's name was mentioned to fill the vacant Surgeon General slot during the presidency of George Bush, she realized she could do even more. Traditionally, the sitting U.
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