Nancy L. Snyderman, MD, (b. 1952 St. Louis, Missouri)^[1] is an American physician and broadcast journalist. Dr. Snyderman is currently the chief medical editor for NBC News, and frequently appears on NBC's Today Show and MSNBC to discuss medicine-related issues. Snyderman is on the staff of the otolaryngology-head and neck surgery department at the University of Pennsylvania.

She is certified by the American Board of Otolaryngology in head and neck surgery, and specializes in head and neck cancer.

Snyderman's medical work has been widely published in peer reviewed journals, and she has been the recipient of numerous research grants from the American Cancer Society, the Kellogg Foundation, and the American Academy of Otolaryngology. Snyderman is the author of three books, Dr. Nancy Snyderman?s Guide to Good Health for Women Over Forty, Necessary Journeys, and Girl in the Mirror: Mothers and Daughters in the Years of Adolescence. She also writes a monthly column for Good Housekeeping magazine.

Education

Snyderman attended South Side High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana, graduating in 1970. She attended Indiana University, earning her BA in microbiology. She went on to attend medical school at the University of Nebraska School of Medicine, earning her MD in 1977.

Career

Snyderman followed up her training with medical residencies in both pediatrics and ear, nose, and throat surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. She moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, joining the surgical staff at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in 1983, specializing in throat and neck cancers.

Snyderman began her broadcasting career around 1984 at KATV, the ABC affiliate in Little Rock, Arkansas. She later served as a Medical Correspondent to KPIX tv in San Francisco in the 1990's She served as a medical correspondent for ABC News for seventeen years, and was a contributor to 20/20, Primetime, and Good Morning America. Before leaving ABC, she was a frequent substitute co-host on Good Morning America.

Snyderman next served as vice president of consumer education for the health care corporation, Johnson & Johnson, where she led the independent educational initiative Understanding Health, focusing on educating and informing the public about health and medicine.

In 1988, Snyderman moved to San Francisco, where she practiced surgery at the California Pacific Medical Center.

Snyderman joined NBC News as chief medical editor in September, 2006. Her reports appear on Today, NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Dateline NBC, MSNBC and MSNBC.com. She has reported on wide-ranging medical topics affecting both men and women, and has traveled the world extensively, reporting from many of the world's most troubled areas. She served as a sports desk reporter for NBC Sports coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics.^[2]

Snyderman hosted the MSNBC program Dr. Nancy, which aired weekdays 12-1 p.m. ET. between June 29 and December 17, 2009.^[3]

In 1999, Snyderman returned over $50,000 to DrKoop.com, a healthcare website based in Austin, Texas, after violating insider trading rules prohibiting corporate officers and directors from profiting from a stock sale within six months of buying shares. At the time, she was a director of DrKoop.com, founded by a former Surgeon General of the United States, C. Everett Koop. Her husband, an investment banker, bought 1,650 shares of DrKoop.com, during its initial public offering (IPO) for $9 a share, and sold it a month later at $41.27 a share.^[4]

References

External links

• Biography of Nancy Snyderman at MSNBC.com
• Speaker Page at LLuminari.com

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