By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer
Former NBC News chief medical editor and Princeton resident Dr. Nancy Snyderman will moderate a discussion of area healthcare CEOs next month, in what will be her first major public appearance since the controversy that erupted over her violating an Ebola quarantine last fall.
Ms. Snyderman will be participating in the fifth annual health care conference run by the Princeton Regional Chamber of Commerce, on Sept.22 at Rider University.
Chamber President and CEO Peter M. Crowley said Thursday that the organization had been trying to have an event that included Dr. Snyderman, whom he described as “a prominent person” in the Princeton region. He said she would moderate in a reporter’s roundtable-type discussion with four CEOs for an hour and 15 minutes.
Dr. Snyderman found herself in the middle of controversy last year after she and her news crew returned from reporting on Ebola-stricken Liberia. During their time there, one of the cameramen came down with the deadly disease; he survived.
She and the rest of the crew agreed to a voluntary, 21-day quarantine, but she violated it by going to get food at the Peasant Grill in Hopewell in October.
The uproar led her and the crew being placed under mandatory quarantine by the state Health Department. She returned to NBC but announced in March that she was leaving the network.
The conference is open to the public, but there is a price for admission: $60 for Chamber members and $75 for non-members. The event starts at 7:30 a.m. and goes until 1 p.m., with two panel discussions and a keynote address also part of the day’s schedule.
Information can be found at www.princetonchamber.org.
