PROFESSOR FIONA WOOD, AM
“EVERYTHING WE LEARN MEANS THAT WE DO BETTER TOMORROW. THE FIRST PATIENT I TREATED WITH CULTURE SKIN CHANGED THE LIVES OF MANY, MANY PEOPLE WHO CAME AFTERWARDS. IT’S ONLY BY LEARNING THE HARD LESSONS THAT WE GET BETTER”.
Professor Fiona Wood, at the third annual address on Immigration and Citizenship, 2012
Fiona Wood has been a burns surgeon and researcher for over 20 years and is Director of the Burns Service of Western Australia (BSWA). She is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Fiona Stanley Hospital (previously at Royal Perth Hospital) and Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, co-founder of the first skin cell laboratory in WA, Winthrop Professor in the School of Surgery at The University of Western Australia, and co-founder of the Fiona Wood Foundation (formerly The McComb Foundation).
Professor Wood’s greatest contribution and enduring legacy is her work with co-inventor Marie Stoner, pioneering the innovative ‘spray-on skin’ technique (Recell), where today the technique is used worldwide.
In October 2002, Fiona was propelled into the media spotlight when the largest proportion of survivors from the 2002 Bali bombings arrived in Perth where Fiona led the medical team at Royal Perth Hospital to save many lives.
Fiona was named a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2003. In 2004 she was awarded the Western Australia Citizen of the Year award for her contribution to Medicine in the field of burns research. Fiona was then named Australian of the Year for 2005. She is an Australian Living Treasure. Fiona is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Science
Fiona is married to fellow surgeon Tony Kierath and is mother to four boys and two girls.
