NANCY SNYDERMAN, MD, FACS

Dr. Nancy Snyderman is a renowned surgeon, Stanford University professor and corporate director. Her career includes 15 years working on innovative medical programs and products for General Electric and Johnson & Johnson, and more than thirty years as a Senior Medical Editor at NBC and ABC News. Dr. Snyderman’s skills uniquely span the fields of medicine, science, communications and global media. Dr. Snyderman spent 25 years as a board-certified, practicing Otolaryngologist and Head and Neck Surgeon at UC and the University of Pennsylvana. She began her corporate career in 2003 at Johnson & Johnson, where she created online medical curricula that J&J marketed to the public. Since 2006, Dr. Snyderman has served on the board of General Electric’s Healthymagination, which applies technology solutions to the world’s biggest health challenges. In addition, Dr. Snyderman currently serves on the boards of publicly-held biopharmaceutical company, Alkermes (NASDAQ: ALKS) and biotech startup, Geneos Therapeutics. She serves as a Scientific Advisor to start up companies Cadence and Strand Diagnostics. She is on the boards of The Institute for Healthcare Improvement, The Albright Institute at Wellesley College, The Eye and Ear Foundation at the Medical Center, and The Fair Food Network. Dr. Snyderman is a Fellow in the American College of Surgeons. With deep expertise on the intersection of medicine and the media, Dr. Snyderman serves as a Consulting Professor at the Stanford University Center for Innovation in Global Health and is co-founder of the Stanford University-NBC News Global Media Fellowship. A bestselling author as well as former medical journalist at ABC News and NBC News, she has traveled the globe extensively and reported 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. Speech Topics

Corporate Event Moderator Dr. Snyderman has years of expertise as a veteran network medical journalist and practicing , combined with corporate experience at Johnson & Johnson and General Electric’s Healthymagination. Her 30 years of working in these arenas gives her a skill set that helps guide panel discussions to bring information of value to the audience while managing time and disparate voices. Disruptive Technology Technology continues to disrupt the healthcare markets at an amazing pace and we are just on the cusp of the changes to come. From implantable nanochips to the democratization of DNA and the true meaning of Big Data, the markets, businesses and ultimately the consumers will need to adapt. Women’s Health Care Women continue to be the primary consumers of healthcare for themselves and their families, sometimes taking care of so many people that their own needs are put on the back burner. Advances in health care (with new genomic sequencing for breast cancer) have improved women’s health and yet too many of us die needlessly from heart disease, hypertension and diabetes. We need to bridge the gap. The Future of Medicine Rarely has a topic in medicine been so grim and exciting at the same time. While we are battling non- communicable diseases like diabetes, hypertension and heart disease that are truly preventable, we are looking at an explosion of philanthropic dollars zeroing in on the human genome, artificial intelligence and nanotechnology. Where do they meet and what do these breakthroughs mean for the average person? Is anyone really talking to each other? Eldercare This may be the fastest growing demographic of our population for which most of us are woefully unprepared. The importance of having the big and tough conversations with aging parents while they are still healthy is not always easy. Yet those folks who have living wills, have spoken about finances and have appointed an adult child as a point person usually do better during times of crises. The fact that the average American only has $20,000 in savings complicates Eldercare and the inherent stresses on the caregiver are subjects that every family should understand.