Hoda Kotb
Host

Award-winning journalist and NBC News correspondent, Hoda Kotb serves as the host for the weekly syndicated series "Your Total Health."

Kotb joined NBC News as a correspondent for “Dateline NBC” in April 1998, and is now one of the co-hosts of the fourth hour of the Today Show. She has been honored with several journalism awards, including a 2006 Peabody Award, a 2003 Gracie Award and a 2002 Edward R. Murrow Award.

During her time at NBC, she has covered a wide variety of domestic and international stories including a trip to the Middle East, where she reported on the conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, and the War on Terror in Afghanistan. She also conducted an exclusive interview with Aung San Suu Kyi, an internationally recognized leader of Burma. This marked the first time in 11 years that Suu Kyi was interviewed by an American television network.

In addition, Kotb traveled to war-torn Burma, led secretly by rebel soldiers, to report the complete story on 12-year-old twin warriors who were said to have magical powers. In addition, she co-anchored an MSNBC special on race, “Shades of Hope…Shadows of Hate,” which was reported from Birmingham, Ala. at the former site of a Klan bombing.

Previously, Kotb worked at WWL-TV, the CBS affiliate in New Orleans, La. where she served as an anchor and reporter for the 10 p.m. news broadcast (1992-98). She was a weekend anchor and reporter for WINK-TV in Fort Myers, Fla (1989-91). Prior to that, Kotb was a morning anchor and general assignment reporter for WQAD-TV, the ABC affiliate in Moline, Ill., and an anchor for WXVT-TV, the CBS affiliate in Greenville, Miss., (1986-89). Kotb began her broadcast career with CBS News as a news assistant in Cairo, Egypt (1986).

Kotb also received the 1997 New Orleans Press Club award for her three-part series “Class Room Crisis,” which examined the deterioration of the New Orleans Public School System.

Kotb graduated from Virginia Tech University with a Bachelor of Arts in broadcast journalism.

DR. DAVID B. AGUS
Medical Consultant

Dr. David B. Agus, a renowned physician in the division of medical oncology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, serves as the medical consultant for "Your Total Health."

Dr. Agus currently serves as Research Director of the Prostate Cancer Center and Director of the Spielberg Family Center for Applied Proteomics and the Sumner Redstone Center Prostate Cancer Research Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and as an Associate Porfessor at the UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Agus has been honored with numerous awards and recognitions, including the the International Myeloma Foundation Visionary Science Award, the American Cancer Society Physician Research Award, a Clinical Scholar Award from the Sloan-Kettering Institute, a CaP CURE Young Investigator Award and the American Cancer Society Clinical Oncology Fellowship Award.

Dr. Agus received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his M.D. from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

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