
Nancy L. Snyderman, M.D. combines an active surgical practice of Head and Neck Surgery along with her appointment as Vice President, Medical Affairs, Corporate Staff, for the health care corporation, Johnson & Johnson. She has served as a medical correspondent for ABC News from 1987-2002. She was a frequent contributor to "Prime Time Thursday" and "Good Morning America" and substitute co-host for GMA. She also writes monthly columns for Good Housekeeping magazine.
Dr. Nancy Snyderman has reported on wide-ranging medical topics affecting both men and women. She has traveled the world and has reported from Eastern and Western Europe, Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War, Russia, Somalia, Kosovo, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Nancy Snyderman's one-hour specials on alcoholism, women and stress, men and women’s brains, and how we age have sparked national debates.
Dr. Snyderman attended medical school at the University of Nebraska and followed up with residencies in Pediatrics and Ear, Nose, and Throat Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh.
In 1983 Nancy Snyderman moved to Little Rock, Arkansas to join the surgical staff at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences where she started to combine her medical skills with her love of reporting.
Dr. Snyderman began her broadcasting at the ABC affiliate KATV and at the same time began filing stories for "Good Morning America. " In l988 Dr. Snyderman moved to San Francisco where she practices surgery at the California-Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco.
Her medical work has been widely published in peer review medical journals and she is the recipient of numerous research grants from the American Cancer Society, the Kellogg Foundation, and the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery. Nancy Snyderman's reporting has been recognized by the Associated Press, United Press International, California Medical Association, and the Radio and Television News Directors Association.
Dr. Snyderman is the author of three books entitled "Dr. Nancy Snyderman's Guide to Good Health For Women Over Forty," "Necessary Journeys" and "Girl in the Mirror: Mother’s and Daughters in the Years of Adolescence."
A native of St. Louis, Dr. Nancy Snyderman resides in San Francisco with her husband Doug and their children Kate, Rachel and Charlie. Her passions include her ranch, five horses, skiing and hiking.