Tammy Snyder LCSW

Tammy Snyder is the Interim Executive Director of the Salem VA Health Care System. Prior to taking the role of Interim Executive Director, Ms. Snyder was named Associate Director of the Salem VA Health Care System (HCS) in April 2024. Before becoming Associate Director, she served in the role of Assistant Director at the Salem VA HCS.

Ms. Snyder earned her Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and a minor in Business Administration from Emory and Henry College in 2000. She completed her Master of Social Work (MSW) from Radford University in 2003.  She joined the Salem VA Health Care System in 2003 as a Social Worker in the Homeless Program. Since then, Ms. Snyder has a broad range of experience as a Social Worker while working in various areas within the health care system, including Acute Med/Surg, Spinal Cord Injury and Disorders Program Coordination and as a Social Work Supervisor, supervising over twenty staff. She became the Assistant Chief of Social Work Service in 2014. In 2016, she then became the Chief of Social Work Service. As Chief, Ms. Snyder was directly responsible for the overall management and operations of the service, to include eighty-four employees and twenty-two specialty programs for the health care system.