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Physician and network medical editor
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Nancy Lynn Snyderman was born in St. Louis, Missouri, on March 26, 1952, and grew up in Fort Wayne, where her father practiced medicine; she graduated from South Side High School in 1970. She took a bachelor's degree in microbiology at Indiana University in 1974 and her medical degree at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1977, then trained and practiced as an otolaryngology surgeon. She moved into broadcasting alongside medicine, serving for some fifteen years as a medical correspondent for ABC News and then, from 2006 to 2015, as chief medical editor of NBC News. She resigned from NBC in March 2015 after a public controversy over her compliance with a voluntary Ebola quarantine the previous fall.
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Sources: National Library of Medicine ("Changing the Face of Medicine" biography); Encyclopedia of Arkansas.