Nancy L. Snyderman, M.D.
Nancy L. Snyderman, M.D. combines an active surgical practice for head and neck surgery with her role as vice-president of medical affairs for Johnson & Johnson. In her new position she is focused on bridging the gaps in health care communication between consumers, business, and media. Dr. Snyderman served as medical correspondent for ABC News from 1987-2002, contributing to Prime Time Thursday, Good Morning America, and 20/20. She was a frequent substitute co-host on Good Morning America.
Reporting on wide-ranging medical topics affecting both men and women Dr. Snyderman traveled the world and has reported from Eastern and Western Europe, Saudi Arabia (during the Persian Gulf War), Russia, Somalia, Kosovo, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Her ABC New one-hour specials on alcoholism, women and stress, men and women’s brains, and aging have sparked national debates.
In 2000, Dr. Snyderman, Dr. Susan Love, the renowned breast cancer surgeon, and Elizabeth Browning, President of DuPont Consumer Health created a new company, LLuminari. LLuminari is a health education company that incorporates leading experts in women’s health. LLuminari currently advises Fortune 500 companies on health care issues and contributes to a monthly column in O, The Oprah Magazine.
Dr. Snyderman attended medical school at the University of Nebraska and continued with residencies in pediatrics and ear, nose, and throat surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. In 1983 she moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, to join the surgical staff for Medical Sciences at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences where she combined her medical skills with her love of reporting. Dr. Snyderman began her broadcasting at the ABC affiliate KATV. In 1988, Dr. Snyderman moved to San Francisco where she practices surgery at the California-Pacific Medical Center.
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. She has received numerous awards for her broadcasting and 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. Dr. Snyderman also writes a monthly column for Good Housekeeping magazine.
A native to St. Louis, Dr. Snyderman lives on a ranch in Marin County with her husband, Doug, their three children, Kate, Rachel, and Charlie, and their horses, cats, and dog.
TOPICS INCLUDE:
- Necessary Journeys
- Women’s Health
- Women, Politics, and Health
- A Doctor Reporter’s View of Health Care
- Medicine and the Media
- How to Juggle Life: Health, Career, Motherhood & Everything in Between
- The Medical Future of America
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Elizabeth A. Browning
Susan M. Love, M.D.
J. Michael Bowman
Donald J. Franceschini
Nancy L. Snyderman, M.D.
Brock J. Vinton
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