Nancy L. Snyderman, M.D. has served as medical correspondent for "Good Morning America” since December, 1987. She also serves as health correspondent for the syndicated show "Day and Date." Dr. Synderman is a Contributing Editor to Parenting Magazine “Ask Dr. Nancy” and Good Housekeeping Magazine.  She has reported on wide-ranging medical topics affecting both men and women. She has reported from Europe, Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf War, and Somalia in December 1992. She spearheaded a month-long series on women's health that aired in October, 1991. She has received broadcasting awards from the California Medical Association, Radio and Television News Directors Association, the Associated Press, and United Press International, and the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.

  Dr. Snyderman served as the Director of the Division of Head and Neck Surgery for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences from 1983 until June, 1988. In 1988 Dr. Snyderman moved to San Francisco to join KPIX-TV. A board-certified surgeon of Otolaryngology (a branch of medicine dealing with the ear, nose, and throat), Dr. Snyderman is also a trained pediatrician. She continues her surgical practice at the California- Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco along with her duties at KPIX. 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 was recently elected to the board of directors of the American Board of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery - the first woman in the 100 year history of the board to hold an elected position. In January, 1996, Dr. Snyderman's book entitled Dr. Nancy Snyderman's Guide to Good Health For Women Over Forty.

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