Cohen announced today that the President has nominated Navy Captain Eleanor C. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs). With a foreword from Bill Clinton, the autobiographical book takes a look at the personal lives of the three American Presidents and three American First Ladies she had taken care of while working as a Physician to the President. She is the author of the book The White House Doctor: My Patients Were Presidents - A Memoir. Hawaii State Senator Will Espero submitted Mariano's name to President Barack Obama for the position of Surgeon General of the United States in May 2009. In 2005, she went on to found the Center for Executive Medicine in Scottsdale. She was succeeded as White House Physician by Richard Tubb. Mariano retired from the Navy and left the White House to join the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona. In the autumn of 1999, Mariano was nominated by the President to the rank of rear admiral (lower half) she was formally promoted in 2000. As a result, she received an early promotion to captain on December 7, 1994. Bush, and was about to be issued new orders to be director of the clinic at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego when she was personally selected by the incoming President, Bill Clinton, to be White House Physician and director of the White House Medical Unit. She joined the unit in June 1992, serving as a physician to President George H.W. Only a year away from being eligible for release from active duty, she was nominated by her commanding officer to serve as Navy physician to the White House Medical Unit. By 1991, Mariano was a commander and the division head of internal medicine and director of the internal medicine clinic at the San Diego naval hospital. Following graduation, she served as a doctor on USS Prairie (AD-15) serving in the Indian Ocean and Western Pacific.

Navy in 1977, and received a medical degree from the Uniformed Services University of Medicine in 1981, graduating as a lieutenant.

She graduated from the University of California, San Diego's Revelle College with cum laude honors and a degree in biology. Mariano was the valedictorian of her Mar Vista High School, Imperial Beach, California, class of 1973. Her father served in the navy as a steward and eventually retired with the rank of Master Chief. Two years later, her parents arrived in the United States. Mariano was born at the Santa Rita in Pampanga, Philippines in 1958.

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