Dr. Nick Coatsworth will host the Today Show next week in a surprise career move from one of Australia's most trusted doctors.
The former deputy chief medical officer, along with news presenter Mia Glover, will replace the programme's usual presenters, Karl Stefanovic and Sarah Abo.
The pair will present the Today Show for the week starting Boxing Day, December 26.
Dr. Coatsworth is a regular contributor to Channel Nine, providing valuable insights on a range of medical topics.
Dr. Nick Coatsworth has made a surprise career move and will present Channel Nine's Today show while Karl Stefanovic is away
Mia Glover will co-host the show with Dr. Presenting Coatsworth
Last month, Dr. Coatsworth announced as presenter of Channel Nine series Do You Want to Live Forever, which will air in 2024.
The show explores whether people can turn back their biological clocks and recently put out a call for six 'entertaining and motivated' Aussies.
Participants receive personalized hints, tips and lifestyle changes to help them live longer, healthier and happier lives.
Former deputy chief medical officer and news presenter Mia Glover will replace the show's usual hosts, Karl Stefanovic and Sarah Abo (both pictured)
Dr. Coatsworth has previously volunteered with Médecins Sans Frontières (Médecins Sans Frontières) in Congo-Brazzaville, Chad and the Darfur region of Sudan.
He was also executive director of the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Center in Darwin and led an Australian medical assistance team to the Philippines in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.
Equally important, Coatsworth had recent experience as a primary care physician.
Coatsworth studied medicine at the University of Western Australia, where he met his future wife Rebecca Pearson, now a lung transplant doctor, while dissecting fetal frogs. “It's not the most romantic thing,” he says.
The young doctor interned at the Royal Perth Hospital and then returned to Sydney where he worked at the Royal North Shore Hospital before heading to Darwin.
He is now completing a PhD on health in foreign policy at the Australian National University, where he also lectures and occasionally provides Covid commentary.