Dr. Caroline MacLeod

Ocean Health Clinic – Cairns

Aug 2017 to Present

Dr. MacLeod has obtained advanced training in skin cancer and cosmetic medicine. Dr. MacLeod became well known for her prevention and treatment of AIDS, tropical and travel related diseases when she was working internationally. She is one of a select group of physicians who are accredited HIV and Hepatitis B and C prescriber in Cairns. She ran the first Tropical Medicine and Traveler’s clinic in Florida and wrote and narrated The Very Healthy Traveler part I and II on Youtube.

Dr. Caroline MacLeod opened the Ocean Health Clinic in July 2017. This speciality skin clinic is located in Cairns city with a focus on cosmetic, skin cancer and lifestyle medicine. The decision to become a doctor in Cairns city has enabled Dr Caroline Macleod to practice medicine the way she prefers.  You and every member of your family’s health is her top priority. It is her goal to ensure she spends more quality time with her patients and help them stay well. For those patients suffering from chronic disease it is her goal to reduce disability and empower quality of life. She is available for home visits and urgent care on Saturday’s and Sunday’s throughout Cairns and in Palm Cove.

Visiting Lecturer Tropical Medicine Unit – JCU Townsville 1996

Aug 1994 to July 1996

Dr. MacLeod became licensed to practice medicine in Queensland in 1996. She worked in Townsville at the old hospital and taught at the Tropical Medicine unit at James Cook University.

General practitioner locum Palm Island, Queensland

Family practitioner with Obstetrics and Emergency Medicine – Barrow, Alaska

Instructor Advanced Cardiac Life Support  and Advance Trauma Life Support

Emergency Room Physician part-time Doctor’s Hospital, Coral Gables

Tropical Medicine and Traveler’s Clinic including general practice, gynecology and tropical medicine consultations hospitals- Miami, Florida

Chairman International Health Research Foundation – funded projects to find the cause of AIDS,  to detect AIDS/HIV infection  and to prevent AIDS/HIV infection

Associate Professor- Florida International University

Associate Professor- Southeastern College of Medicine, North Miami Beach

Assistant Professor- University of Miami Medical School, Miami, Florida

Author & Editor: Parasitic Infections in Pregnancy and Newborn, Oxford University Medical Press

Obtetrics and Gynecology- Locum South Miami, Florida

Obstetrics and Gynecology – Chief residency at the University of Miami

Nong Kai Refugee Camp and Hospital in Thailand

Post-doctoral fellowship in International and Tropical Medicine at the University of California San Francisco

Emergency Room Physician

General Practitioner – Liberia, West Africa, Panama, Cairns and Galapagos Islands

Doctor of Medicine – Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans

Master of Public Health and Tropical Medicine – Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Bachelor in Chemistry – Florida Atlantic University