So You Want To Be A Surgeon…

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So You Want To Be A Surgeon…

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Episode Four

As a highly skilled plastic and reconstructive surgeon, world-leading burns specialist, and co-inventor of a pioneering medical technique, we catch up with Dr Fiona Wood to unpack her remarkable career.

Learn how she revolutionised her field with key advice on how you can follow in her illustrious footsteps. Hosted by Tony Farley and Jeremy from Clancy Catholic College West Hoxton.

Episode Four

As a highly skilled plastic and reconstructive surgeon, world-leading burns specialist, and co-inventor of a pioneering medical technique, we catch up with Dr Fiona Wood to unpack her remarkable career.

Learn how she revolutionised her field with key advice on how you can follow in her illustrious footsteps. Hosted by Tony Farley and Jeremy from Clancy Catholic College West Hoxton.

Dr Fiona Wood

Dr Fiona Wood AO FAHMS is an Australian plastic surgeon and burns specialist working in Perth, Western Australia.

She is the director of the Royal Perth Hospital Burns Unit and the Western Australia Burns Service, and developed spray-on skin in collaboration with Marie Stoner.

In addition, Wood is also a clinical professor with the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia and director of the Fiona Wood Foundation (formerly the McComb Research Foundation).

In 1978, she was one of just twelve women admitted to the St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School in London, graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1981.

In 2022, her biography was published, Under her Skin by Sue Williams, with her share of proceeds from the book going to the Fiona Wood Foundation.

Wood has become well known for her patented invention of spray-on skin for burn patients, a treatment which is being continually developed. Where previous techniques of skin culturing required 21 days to produce enough cells to cover major burns, Wood has reduced the period to five days.

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Dr Fiona Wood

Dr Fiona Wood AO FAHMS is an Australian plastic surgeon and burns specialist working in Perth, Western Australia.

She is the director of the Royal Perth Hospital Burns Unit and the Western Australia Burns Service, and developed spray-on skin in collaboration with Marie Stoner.

In addition, Wood is also a clinical professor with the School of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Australia and director of the Fiona Wood Foundation (formerly the McComb Research Foundation).

In 1978, she was one of just twelve women admitted to the St Thomas’s Hospital Medical School in London, graduating with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in 1981.

In 2022, her biography was published, Under her Skin by Sue Williams, with her share of proceeds from the book going to the Fiona Wood Foundation.

Wood has become well known for her patented invention of spray-on skin for burn patients, a treatment which is being continually developed. Where previous techniques of skin culturing required 21 days to produce enough cells to cover major burns, Wood has reduced the period to five days. 

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