President Joe Biden is nominating Dr. Shereef Elnahal, the CEO of University Hospital in Newark and a former New Jersey health commissioner, to be under secretary for health of the Veterans Health Administration, according to a White House announcement Wednesday. If confirmed, Elnahal would be returning to familiar territory. He became a White House fellow at the Department of Veterans Affairs in 2015 and rose to assistant deputy under secretary for health, quality, safety and value at the agency, where he served until 2018. The announcement, which called Elnahal, 36, “a physician leader,” not…

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