On Thursday, NBC News Chief Medical Editor Nancy Snyderman announced that she has decided to leave her job. Last fall, Snyderman had broken a voluntary quarantine after covering the Ebola epidemic.

Snyderman said she has decided to return to academic medicine. According to the physician, she will take up a faculty position at a major United States medical school. She said, “More needs to be done to communicate medicine and science to our viewers and citizens, especially in times of crisis, and with my experiences in the field and on air, that is going to be a priority for me”.

In October 2014, Snyderman had returned from Liberia after covering the Ebola epidemic. She was asked to self-quarantine for the standard 21 days. Snyderman worked with Ashoka Mukpo, a photojournalist who contracted the Ebola virus. Snyderman incited public outrage when she was seen in a restaurant near her home in New Jersey. Local authorities were asked to put the physician under a mandatory quarantine.

At that time, Deborah Turness, NBC News president, said that Snyderman was instructed to spend some time with her family and friends to restore normalcy to her life. Snyderman returned to the air in December and publicly apologized.

According to reports, broadcast journalist Snyderman has worked for NBC News for about nine years. Before that, she was a medical correspondent for ABC News for more than a decade. Snyderman also had been an executive at Johnson & Johnson. As per her bio, the physician has reported on many medical topics. She travelled to some of the most trouble areas across the world for her work. In 2010, she went to Haiti and reported the devastation from the earthquake. She is on staff in the Department of the Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania.