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     STATE OF RHODE ISLAND

IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2022

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H O U S E   R E S O L U T I O N

HONORING AND THANKING DR. NICOLE ALEXANDER-SCOTT

     Introduced By: Representatives Shekarchi, Blazejewski, Cassar, Filippi, Kislak,
McGaw, Fogarty, Knight, Cortvriend, and Serpa

     Date Introduced: January 18, 2022

     Referred To: House read and passed

     WHEREAS, Nicole Alexander-Scott, M.D., Director of the Rhode Island Department of

Health, was appointed Health Director by former Governor Gina Raimondo in April of 2015. In

that capacity, she has devoted all her considerable talents and energy to improving the health of

each and every person in the State of Rhode Island, and has been a stalwart and trusted presence

in the lives of most Rhode Islanders during the COVID pandemic; and

     WHEREAS, Originally from Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Alexander-Scott majored in

Human Development and Family Studies at Cornell University, and subsequently graduated from

SUNY Upstate Medical University at Syracuse. Upon completion of a combined internal

medicine-pediatrics residency at SUNY Stony Brook University Hospital, she finished a four-

year combined fellowship in adult and pediatric infectious diseases at Brown University, and

later, obtained a Master's Degree in Public Health from Brown University; and

     WHEREAS, Dr. Alexander-Scott has had widespread professional and academic

experience. She is board certified in Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Pediatric Infectious Diseases,

and Adult Infectious Diseases, and was an associate professor of pediatrics, medicine, and public

health; and

     WHEREAS, Highly regarded among her peers, Dr. Alexander-Scott has been

commended for her calm, collaborative style, and her willingness to listen as well as inform. She

served as President of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO), which

is the national organization for state health directors; and

     WHEREAS, Over the past two years, Dr. Alexander-Scott has been a strong and calming

presence on the podium as the citizens of Rhode Island avidly tuned in to weekly updates on the

State's efforts to fight COVID. She has touched the lives and hearts of so many people and is

truly an extraordinary woman who serves as a model of dedicated and conscientious civic service;

now, therefore be it

     RESOLVED, That this House of Representatives of the State of Rhode Island hereby

recognizes and thanks Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott on the occasion of her retirement as Health

Director after almost seven years of steadfast and unselfish service to the people of the State of

Rhode Island. We wish her good health, fulfillment and continued success in all her future

endeavors; and be it further

     RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to

transmit a duly certified copy of this resolution to Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott.

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