Nick Coatsworth
Non-Executive Director
Infectious Diseases
Care Flight
Australia
Biography
Nick is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and specialises in both respiratory medicine and infectious diseases. He is currently Director of Infectious Diseases at Canberra Hospital and was previously Executive Director at the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre in Darwin. Nick is deeply committed to humanitarian causes. As a doctor with Medecins sans Frontieres, he has worked in Congo-Brazzaville, Chad and in the Darfur region of Sudan. He was elected to the Board of Medecins sans Frontieres in Australia in 2008, serving as President in 2010 and 2011. In the Northern Territory, Nick is very involved with indigenous health, regularly visiting remote indigenous communities. Nick has been a Director since June 2015.
Research Interest
Nick is a Fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians and specialises in both respiratory medicine and infectious diseases. He is currently Director of Infectious Diseases at Canberra Hospital and was previously Executive Director at the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre in Darwin. Nick is deeply committed to humanitarian causes. As a doctor with Medecins sans Frontieres, he has worked in Congo-Brazzaville, Chad and in the Darfur region of Sudan. He was elected to the Board of Medecins sans Frontieres in Australia in 2008, serving as President in 2010 and 2011. In the Northern Territory, Nick is very involved with indigenous health, regularly visiting remote indigenous communities. Nick has been a Director since June 2015.
