Cath Tacon

Cath is an Intensive Care and Retrieval Specialist at Cairns Hospital and Lifeflight Queensland. She is the Supervisor of Training for Cairns ICU and a Fellowship Examiner for CICM.

She has completed a Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and having worked and trained in a variety of interesting places, including Papua New Guinea, Darwin and Alice Springs she has always had an interest in health equality and the delivery of medicine in remote and resource poor settings.

She is a member of AusMAT, deploying with Team Bravo to the Samoan Measles Epidemic and to Papua New Guinea as part of the COVID-19 response. She is the co-Vice Chair of the ANZICS/CICM Global Health Special Interest Group.