Welcome to TIN 2025

Helvetica Light is an easy-to-read font, with tall and narrow features....well that font description essentially applies to me so let's run with that.  Melita is convening her 7th TIN meeting, and will continue to present until such time that she gets better at recruiting others to do so.

Adam just can't help adding further qualifications and job titles to follow his name. Intensivist, FACEM, FACRRM, JCCA, retrievalist, herpetologist....he does it all and somehow remains down to earth and find time to return to TIN.

Lachlan can't make up his mind as to where he wants to live and so he frantically commutes to make the best of both worlds. He currently works at TUH and PAH and St Vincents Northside as in intensivist, as well as flying across the state and providing clinical governance in his LifeFlight roles. 

Loki is a Consultant Intensivist at Mater Health in Brisbane but he has never forgotten his the role that north Qld played in his intensive care career.  He misses the unique medical experiences it offers.

Loki has an interests in critical care echocardiography, obstetrics in ICU, and organ donation.

Erin is a specialist Anaesthetist working at the Victorian Heart Hospital, Australia's only standalone cardiac facility.  She completed her ANZCA training in Melbourne, with further subspecialisation in cardiothoracic and vascular anaesthesia in Canada. Erin spent three years working as a cardiac anaesthetist in the tropics of Townsville before returning south.  Areas of interest include quality assurance, pain management, research & teaching.

Michael Corkeron is a Senior Staff Specialist in the Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine at Sunshine Coast University Hospital.  Until pretty recently he was also an Intensivist based in North Queensland, having been involved in the Townsville and Mackay ICUs since what can be frighteningly labelled as the turn of the century, with some excursions away working in PICU, Retrieval, and the ADF over that time. His special interests at work are patient safety, perioperative medicine and trauma. Outside of work he is a keen windsurfer, a diver, a slow but enthusiastic cyclist, an occasional bushwalker and a variably successful vegetable gardener.

​I’m an advanced ICU trainee up in Mackay for 18 months and have been teaching ALS for 6 years. I like to pretend the fellowship exam doesn’t exist by diving, testing out all the local dog friendly cafes and dabbling in very amateur whale photography when the giants arrive! 

Anaesthetist, Intensivist, mad keen bike rider, sustainability enthusiast, echocardiographer, retrievalist, educator, is there anything he doesn't do?  

Apparently there is....he tells me he can't crack jokes very well and attributes this to his innate Germanity (is that a word?)

Dave hails from North Queensland and has taken a circuitous route through his medical career, settling on a hybrid combination of intensive care and respiratory medicine. He has a particular interest in education and training, and loves nothing more than navigating the bronchial tree. When he isn't debating on whether the sputum sample was mucoid or mucopurulent, Dave loves to get out with his two young kids to enjoy nature, travel to far flung corners of the world, and attempt to master the sport of kitesurfing.

Megan Dale is a dedicated nursing leader and educator with a Master of Nursing in Leadership and Management, shaping undergraduate education and mentoring future nurses. Driven by a passion for nurse wellbeing, Megan champions mental health and professional growth, and is currently applying for her PhD to further contribute to the field.

Phoebe is a newly minted intensivist (probably).  In her delirious post exam haze she realised she was, in fact, passionate about delirium care and actually enjoys looking after the tiny humans in ICU.  Her interest in sustainability was ignited when she realised it aligned with her love of op-shopping and second-hand books.  Her quest to find skin contact wine in North Queensland is ongoing and she can frequently be found out and about accompanied by a small, fluffy shadow.

Stephen is the Clinical Director of Intensive Care Services in Mackay. He is a passionate advocate for the importance of specialist practice in regional areas, including maximising treatment options for critically unwell patients of all ages outside tertiary facilities. Stephen will discuss his experience implementing ECCO2R for respiratory failure in a non-ECMO centre.

Patricia earned her claims to tropical intensive care whilst undertaking intensive care training in the warm climes of Darwin. She has a passion for education and participated in Pangea Global Health/Specialists without Borders projects in Malawi and her home nation of Zimbabwe.  She is currently the Deputy Director of St Vincents ICU, Melbourne.

Whilst a Townsville local, Carly started her nursing career as a graduate on Thursday Island of all places before returning to TUH and never leaving. Current ICU CNC, TIN devotee, jack of all trades, master of none, chaos coordinator, mum to 2 smallish children, lover of scuba diving & espresso martinis, charcuterie master, moonlights as a hyperbarics nurse from time to time, and I guarantee you will hear me before you see me.

Growing up, studying and training in Queensland Cameron has lived in Townsville, Rockhampton, Gold Coast, Tweed and had a brief stint as a student on Thursday Island (he's still disappointed they don't have an ICU he can work at). He is currently living and working as an intensivist in Bundaberg, is keen on education and is certain that regional units could be better used in speciality training. 

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