Nancy Snyderman, MD

Nancy Snyderman is a renowned surgeon, healthcare systems expert and corporate director. She currently serves on the boards of Alkermes (NASDAQ: ALKS) and Axonics Modulation Technologies (NASDAQ: AXNX). She serves as a scientific adviser to startup companies Cadence and Strand Diagnostics and sits on the boards of The Albright Institute at Wellesley College and The Fair Food Network. Dr. Snyderman is a Kellogg Fellow and a fellow in the American College of Surgeons. Her career includes 15 years working on innovative medical programs and products for General Electric and Johnson & Johnson. She began her corporate career in 2003 at Johnson & Johnson, where she created online medical curricula the company marketed to the public.

For 10 years, Dr. Snyderman served on the board of General Electric’s Healthymagination, which applied technology solutions to the world’s biggest health challenges. For more than 30 years, Dr. Snyderman was an award-winning senior medical editor at ABC and NBC News. Her skills uniquely span the fields of medicine, science, communication and global media. Dr. Snyderman spent 25 years as a board-certified, practicing otolaryngologist-head and neck surgeon at UC San Francisco and the University of Pennsylvania. With deep expertise on the intersection of medicine, big data and the media, Dr. Snyderman recently served as a consulting professor at the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health and is co-founder of the Stanford University-NBC News Global Health Media Fellowship.

Dr. Snyderman is a New York Times bestselling author and has traveled the globe extensively, lecturing and reporting from some of the world’s most troubled areas. Her reporting has garnered her the industry’s most distinguished honors, including Emmy, DuPont, Edward R. Murrow and Gracie awards.