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Aldona wos
Aldona Zofia Wos (born 1955) is an American physician and politician. She was the United States Ambassador to Estonia from 2004 until early December 2006. She was the fifth U.S. ambassador to Estonia since that country regained independence in 1991. From 2012 until 2015, she was Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services.
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- Aldona wos
- National Security Conversation with Amb Aldona Wos Amb R James Woolsey and Dr John Lenczowski
- As a physician
- State positions
- Secretary of NC Health
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In 2017 May, president Donald Trump appointed her his vice-chairwoman of the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships. The president uses the commission to interview and recommend candidates for White House fellowships.
National Security Conversation with Amb. Aldona Wos, Amb. R. James Woolsey, and Dr. John Lenczowski
As a physician
She was born in Warsaw, Poland. Wos has a medical degree from Warsaw Medical Academy. She is the daughter of Paul Zenon Wos, a Flossenbürg concentration camp survivor. Wos is a member of the American College of Physicians, the American Women's Medical Association, the American College of Chest Physicians, the Medical Society of the State of New York, the North Carolina Medical Society, and the Greater Greensboro Society of Medicine. As a physician, Wos prided herself on her work in the field of preventing HIV and AIDS. Wos moved from New York City to Greensboro, North Carolina in 1997 when her husband, Louis DeJoy, took over New Breed Logistics a company started by his father Dominick DeJoy Sr. in 1968.
State positions
In North Carolina, she became an avid Republican Party fund-raiser. She was appointed North Carolina State Chair of Women for Senator Elizabeth Dole, and the North Carolina Finance Co-Chair for the 2004 Bush-Cheney presidential campaign. President George W. Bush appointed her to two terms on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. As ambassador to Estonia, she helped organize the state visit of President Bush to Estonia, which took place on 27th and 28 November 2006. She left her diplomatic post in late 2006. The U.S. Embassy in Estonia announced that her successor would be Stanley Davis Phillips. He was sworn in on April 16, 2007.
Secretary of NC Health
In 2012, North Carolina Governor-elect Pat McCrory appointed her to his Cabinet as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services. Wos declined her $128,000 salary and was instead paid a token $1. In April 2013, Wos told reporters that she felt that government transparency could be negative, saying constant queries could interfere in government agents and their planning processes. Under Wos, the new NCTracks program mailed the private medical information of almost 49,000 children to the wrong addresses. The timespan of her tenure earned criticism for issues such as computer glitches, although McCrory praised how she "streamlined" the health care delivery systems. McCrory also praised Wos for the state's $130 million Medicaid budget surplus during her tenure, after years of major budget shortfalls. She resigned in August 2015 to be with family.