Dr Cath Tacon

ANZICS Representative

Global Intensive Care Initiative (GICI), Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society, and Clinical Director of Intensive Care, Cairns & Hinterland Hospital & Health Service.

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

She has completed a Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and has 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 and Timor-Leste as part of the COVID-19 response. She was the former co-Vice Chair of the Global Intensive Care Initiative.