Stephanie Haridopolos alters, then removes, LinkedIn profile
After I revealed instances of her misrepresentations, the senior HHS official made several changes, then removed her profile
Sometime in the last 24 hours, Stephanie Haridopolos, the Acting Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the U.S. Surgeon General (or her representatives), made changes to her verified LinkedIn profile that directly addressed my May 15 article documenting misrepresentations she had made on it. Shortly after making these changes, her profile disappeared this afternoon; the system message in its place seems to indicate it has been deleted.
In that earlier article, I showed how Haridopolos’s profile had the effect of making it appear as if she had attended Albany Medical College (for which there is no evidence) and had earned two different degrees from Stetson University (which the university confirms was not possible in the way she had asserted), and did not disclose the fact that she had obtained her medical degree from a for-profit institution in the Caribbean.
In the first of at least two sets of changes in the last 24 hours,1 that institution—the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine—was added to her “Education” section. The new entry included the degree she obtained, and an apparently inaccurate date for her graduation from the program.2
There were also several changes made to the Stetson University Bachelor’s degree entry. First, a typographical error I had pointed out in my earlier article was corrected. Next, a new a typographical error was added (“Chemistey” from “Chemistry”). Finally, a new subsection was added: “Activities and societies” that included “Alpha Xi Delta Sorority” and “Phi Theta Kappa.”
Using publicly available information, I cannot confirm the first assertion.3 However, in the 1994 Hatter—Stetson’s yearbook—several members of the sorority list it along with other details about them; Haridopolos (Bressan, then) does not appear in that section. Also, one page shows several group photos of Alpha Xi Delta; she does not appear to be among the members. There is no evidence that this claim is false, however.
Her second addition to that subsection, though, is more easily addressed. According to Phi Theta Kappa, it is an honor society for students in two-year colleges, and it does not have a chapter at Stetson University. And the society confirmed that it would not have had “activities” on the campus of a school at which it does not have a chapter.
Given the fact that Haridopolos asserted that she earned an associate’s degree from Stetson University (which does not grant such degrees), and claimed membership in a society for students who pursue such degrees (although that she had done so at Stetson), it is possible she had attended a different, two-year college, prior to entering Stetson.4 If that were true, however, it would call into question her claims on LinkedIn and in official Florida records that she began studying at Stetson in 1990.
The Stetson University digital archives does contain two records, though,5 that show Haridopolos was a leader in two honor societies: Gamma Sigma Epsilon, and Mortar Board. It is unclear why she (or others) would choose to include on her LinkedIn profile at least one society in which she could not have participated at Stetson, and—more importantly—not include two societies of which she had been reported to have been a leader.
That update to the profile, however, left the inaccurate detail of an associate’s degree she did not earn from Stetson. A subsequent update6 made a change to that.
And it added another detail about her medical education.
In the latter update, the false statement about Haridopolos having earned an associate’s degree from Stetson has been removed, and what appears to be a false statement was added to the Albany Medical College entry.
As my earlier articles about Haridopolos and former Surgeon General nominee Janette Nesheiwat discussed, residents complete a program, they do not graduate from them. And while residencies are a part of postgraduate training, residency programs do not issue degrees. These facts apparently did not prevent Haridopolos (or her representatives) from claiming that she earned a postgraduate degree in Family Medicine from Albany Medical College—which, according to publicly available information, she could not have.
Sometime between the publishing of these changes and additions—which made some corrections, and added some new inaccuracies and additional false statements—and 7:30 pm EDT today, Haridopolos’s LinkedIn profile vanished.
Screenshot captured by the author at 1:02 pm EDT May 15, 2025.
According to her official Florida license profile and other records, she graduated from medical school in April 1998.
The sorority did not return messages by the time of publication asking for verification.
A college from which Haridopolos may or may not have earned an associate’s degree.
Including Stetson’s 1994 Academic Honors Convocation.
Screenshot captured by the author at 4:45 pm EDT May 15, 2025.
So glad you have screenshots of the falsified profile. Thanks for investigating and sharing the truth.
And thank you for your diligence, sir.