Dr. Nancy Snyderman Resigns From NBC News

Dr. Nancy Snyderman

Dr. Nancy Snyderman, the chief medical editor for NBC News who made headlines six months ago when she broke her precautionary Ebola quarantine, announced Thursday (March 12th) that she's resigning from the network.

Snyderman said that, in her words, "becoming part of the story" after covering the Ebola epidemic in Liberia contributed to her decision to leave for a medical school faculty job.

Snyderman had been asked to observe a voluntary 21-day quarantine at her New Jersey home when she came back from Liberia, where she'd briefly worked with a cameraman who caught the virus. But after she was seen getting takeout food near her home, state authorities made her quarantine mandatory, and NBC was flooded with angry complaints from the public.

Snyderman returned to the air on December 3rd after being told to take some time off, and apologized. But although she came back, Snyderman didn't do another Ebola story for NBC, and she was last on air on February 22nd.