She earned her PhD in Education at USC. She taught public health and pediatric nursing at USC for 10 years from 1994 to 2004, before taking a faculty position at USC in the School of Social Work. Dr. Schneiderman has a K01 from the National Institutes of Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development to study the prevention of medical neglect in the child welfare system. Dr. Schneiderman has been conducting research on the health and health care of abused and neglected children as well as other underserved youth. She, along with her colleagues, published one of the first public health nursing articles about gang youth as a vulnerable population. Her recent research has been targeted toward documenting the prevalence of obesity in children in foster care.