Melita is an intensive care specialist working at Townsville University Hospital.  She has been a co-convener of the TIN meeting since the inaugural meeting in 2013.  She continues to do a presentation every year as it is unfair to ask others to do something one is not prepared to do themselves!

Eamonn is originally from Wellington NZ but was lucky enough to work in North Queensland as an SR at Townsville ICU in 2021 where he became co-convenor of TIN. He works in Brisbane now, and has an interest in hyperbaric medicine.

Adam is now a triple qualified over-achieving polymath with Fellowships in Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care and Rural and Remote Medicine. He is currently working at Thursday Island Hospital where he get to apply his broad skill set, including in the Birds of Paradise retrieval service.

Loki is an intensivist at the Mater Adult Hospital, Brisbane who misses the unique medical experiences in Far North Queensland. His special interests include point of care ultrasound, donation after circulatory death, mentoring of junior doctors and medical education.

Angus Carter is an ex-officio North Queenslander, having worked as an Intensivist at Cairns Base Hospital for many years before seeking cooler climes  in his home state of Victoria. This move also saw him step into a divisional directorial role - can he answer the question, is management really the 'dark side'?

Michael Corkeron is a senior Staff Anaesthetist and Intensivist at the Townsville Hospital, with an interest in perioperative care and planning for high- risk surgery. He is an Intensive Care Editor for Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, a Clinical Senior Lecturer with the James Cook University School of Medicine and an examiner for CICM. Other areas of interest for him include patient safety and envenomation.

Outside work he tries to keep up with his Geologist spouse, dabbles in citizen marine science ( don’t start him on zooxanthellae in shallow water fringing reef corals or anything to do with cephalopod neurology), tries to fit in as much diving as possible and would like to be a vastly more competent windsurfer.

Rob is the current President of the College of Intensive Care Medicine of Australia and New Zealand.  Originally from the UK,  he is dual trained in General and Intensive Care Medicine, but work full time in ICU in Auckland. He has been living in NZ for almost 20 years, having trained in ICM in both NZ and Australia. This is his second appearance at TIN, having attended TIN 2017 in Palm Cove.

Stephen returned from his fellowship year at St Thomas' London (where he and Jenny weathered peak pandemic conditions) to his old stomping ground of Townsville, bringing a wealth of ECMO and covid experience and the thunkiness of his keyboard to  the TUH ICU consultants office.

Having completed his medical training between Townsville and Brisbane, Lachlan has worked in the ED, the ICU and in the pre-hospital environment since returning to Townsville. He is the ICU specialist most likely to own a raccoon. 

Alison loves working in and visiting remote parts of Australia. As an Intensivist in Cairns and until recently, a retrievalist Alice Springs, she sees first-hand the impacts of remoteness on health both in the community and critical care settings.

Having completed a Diploma of Diagnostic Ultrasound and a Master of Public Health and tropical Medicine, Alison is passionate about providing high quality intensive care, comprehensive critical care ultrasound and public healthcare in remote Australia.

Amanda has been part of the ICU team for 24 years and is currently the Clinical Nurse Consultant.

During this time Amanda dabbled in Midwifery but was drawn back to critical care....

Amanda has three children and enjoys all things outdoors.

Tash has been a Critical Care Outreach Nurse at the Townsville University Hospital since the role began 6 years ago.

She has been a nurse for 23 years. She has worked predominately in the critical care setting. She has also worked in rural and remote areas in North and West QLD and has done some retrieval work.

If you can’t find Tash at TUH she chasing her 2 kids and fur baby around the strand enjoying what the North Queensland lifestyle has to offer.

Simon is a Critical Care Outreach Nurse at the Townsville University Hospital who has been in this role since its inception almost six years ago. He has around 20 years’ experience in adult, paediatric and post operative cardiac intensive care nursing, working in Townsville, Cairns and Brisbane. When he’s not at work he’s either on his mountain bike or spending time with his two young boys.

With all the weight of the family name in the cardiology field, Jenny has returned to Townsville after completing two fellowships in adult congenital heart disease to establish and grow NQ's service.

Phoebe currently works as a senior registrar at Townsville University Hospital and is slowly migrating the length of Queensland to complete her CICM training.

Joining us from the cold climes of Adelaide, Anil returns to North Queensland like the prodigal son to share his expertise in paediatric echocardiography in the PICU.

Craig is a Cairns-based intensivist with previous experience in rural healthcare. He has interests in the process or care, and education & training of junior medical officers.  Craig is not actually presenting hence he gets away without having a profile picture - but he has been instrumental in assisting James, one of his trainees, to present at TIN so kudos is given here.

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James is an ICU trainee at the Cairns Hospital. He completed his medical studies at Griffith University. Moving to North Queensland in 2020 has sparked an interest in healthcare equality and its delivery in regional settings.