Bob Arnot
MSNBC Special Foreign Correspondent
Bob Arnot is MSNBC?s Special Foreign Correspondent. Arnot reports from hot spots around the world, as he has for the past decade for NBC News and CBS News. He assumed the role in 2001 for MSNBC, NBC News on Cable 24/7.
ARNOT WAS NBC News? Chief Medical Correspondent from 1997- 2001. In this capacity, he provided medical updates and reports to NBC News programs, including ?Today,? ?NBC Nightly News? with Tom Brokaw and ?Dateline NBC,? as well as to MSNBC. He also produced medical documentaries, such as ?Sudan in Crisis.?
Arnot came to NBC from CBS News, where he served in a variety of capacities, including as the health correspondent for ?CBS Evening News? from 1993 to 1997, medical correspondent for ?CBS This Morning? from 1985 to 1992, and as medical reporter for ?CBS Morning News? beginning in 1981. In addition, Arnot has produced several CBS documentaries including ?AIDS Hits Home and Somalia: A Dying Nation.? His special report ?48 Hours on Crack Street? received a prestigious DuPont award.
Before joining network television, Arnot was the medical director at National Emergency Services from 1980 to 1984, where he supervised 1,200 physicians at more than 100 hospitals. Prior to this, he had the honor of being a physician at the XIII Winter Olympic Games in 1980. Arnot trained in exercise physiology from 1976 to 1978. He has also studied at the Exercise Physiology Lab at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, the Pulmonary Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Biomechanics Lab at MIT.
In 1974, Arnot began a two-year residency in Internal Medicine at Dartmouth Affiliate Hospitals in New Hampshire. He received his Doctor of Medicine/Master of Surgery from McGill University in 1974. Arnot graduated from Dartmouth College in 1972 with a bachelor?s degree in medical science.
A great supporter of humanitarian efforts, Arnot donated his time as a relief worker in Kenya and Sierra Leone in 1972 and 1974, and has traveled all over the world to report on disaster relief efforts, medical crises, and humanitarian aid. He also serves on the boards of numerous medical and humanitarian organizations.
Arnot is also the author of several books, among them The Breast Cancer Prevention Diet, The Best Medicine, Revolutionary Weight Control, Sportselection and Turning Back the Clock.