Gov. Gina Raimondo has nominated a new leader for the state Dept. of Health.
Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott is currently Consultant Medical Director for the state health department’s division of infectious diseases, focusing on HIV and AIDS, viral hepatitis, and other infections. She’s a board-certified specialist in infectious disease in both children and adults. Alexander-Scott is also on the faculty of Brown University’s medical school. She studied medicine at the State University of New York Upstate Medical School and received a Masters in Public Health from Brown.
If she is approved by the State Senate, Alexander-Scott would replace Dr. Michael Fine, who announced his resignation last month.