Background
She was born in Warsaw, Poland. She is the daughter of Paul Zenon Wos, a Flossenbürg concentration camp survivor.
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Aldona Wos
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Career
She was the fifth United States. ambassador to Estonia since that country regained independence in 1991. Wos has a medical degree from Warsaw Medical Academy. As a physician, Wos prided herself on her work in the field of preventing Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. 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 Company-Chair for the 2004 Bush-Cheney presidential campaign.
President George West. 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 United States. Embassy in Estonia announced that her successor would be Stanley Davis Phillips.
He was sworn in on April 16, 2007.
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 lectured reporters on the dangers of government transparency, saying it gets in the way of people doing their jobs.
The department should not be asked about its plans, she said.
“I think the word transparency can get pretty dangerous,” Wos said. “Because what does transparency mean? If transparency means that we’re in a planning process and you’re asking us, ‘Tell us all the things you’re planning,’ well, my goodness, allow us to work, and then we’ll give you everything that you want.” Under Wos, the new NCTracks program mailed the private medical information of almost 49,000 children to the wrong addresses.
She resigned in August of 2015.
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Quotations: “I think the word transparency can get pretty dangerous,”.
Membership
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.
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