Dr. Nancy Snyderman is chief medical editor for NBC News. She started this role in September of 2006. Snyderman has reported on wide-ranging medical topics on all platforms of NBC News including "TODAY," "Nightly News with Brian Williams" and NBCNews.com.
Snyderman joined NBC News from Johnson & Johnson, where she was vice president of consumer education. In that role, Snyderman led the independent educational initiative, Understanding Health, focusing on educating and informing the public about health and medicine.
Prior to that, Snyderman was the medical correspondent for ABC News for 17 years and a contributor to "20/20," "Primetime" and "Good Morning America." She was a frequent substitute co-host on "Good Morning America."
Snyderman also serves on GE’s Healthymagination board of directors, as well as the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, and The Forman School in Litchfield, Connecticut. She is on faculty in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.
Snyderman has received several of the industry’s most distinguished honors including Emmys, DuPont, Edward R. Murrow, and Gracie awards. Snyderman’s medical work has been widely published in peer review journals and she is a New York Times bestselling author, having written five books.
Snyderman lives in Princeton, N.J., and is the mother of three children.