Janette Nesheiwat

Janette Nesheiwat (born August 25, 1976) is an American physician who was educated at a Caribbean medical school and completed her residency in Arkansas. She was briefly nominated for Surgeon General of the United States during the second Trump administration. Nesheiwat has served as the medical director of the healthcare company CityMD and is a medical contributor on Fox News.

Early life and education Janette Nesheiwat was born in Carmel, New York, the daughter of Jordanian Christian immigrants. She is one of five children; her siblings are Julia Nesheiwat, Jaclyn Stapp, Dina Nesheiwat, and Daniel Nesheiwat. Julia Nesheiwat is married to Mike Waltz, a Republican former congressperson and former national security advisor to Donald Trump.

She later attended Umatilla High School, received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from University of South Florida in 2000, and completed coursework at Stetson University. From August 2000 to April 2006, she attended the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in St. Maarten where she received her medical degree. She did her residency program in family medicine at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences from 2006 to 2009.

Career Nesheiwat is a board-certified family medicine physician. Her early career included practicing in Northwest Arkansas, where she was also the host of Jones TV's Family Health Today. In 2012, she was awarded the Red Cross community partner hero award. In 2013, Nesheiwat was selected by Arkansas Business for the publication's annual "40 under 40" list, which profiled forty leaders in the state of Arkansas under the age of forty. She was noted for her medical practice, local television reporting, and international relief efforts in Morocco, Haiti, and Poland, as well as relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina and the Joplin tornadoes.

In 2012, Nesheiwat moved to New York City, New York, where she worked for CityMD, an urgent care provider. She eventually became one of CityMD's directors. In addition, she continued working as a medical news correspondent, frequently contributing to national television networks as a medical contributor to provide analysis and commentary about the COVID-19 pandemic first-hand.

Nesheiwat wrote a memoir, Beyond the Stethoscope: Miracles in Medicine, which was released in December 2024. She has also founded a brand of dietary supplements, BC Boost.

Nesheiwat was briefly a nominee for Surgeon General of the United States during the second Trump administration. Hours later, Trump announced that he would instead nominate Casey Means as surgeon general.