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Fiona Wood (Fiona Melanie Wood) was born on 2 February, 1958 in Yorkshire, England, is an Australian plastic surgeon and burns specialist. Discover Fiona Wood's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 66 years old?

Popular As Fiona Melanie Wood
Occupation Plastic surgeon
Age 66 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 2 February 1958
Birthday 2 February
Birthplace Yorkshire, England
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1958

Fiona Melanie Wood (born 2 February 1958) 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).

Wood was born in Yorkshire, England, on 2 February 1958, the third of four children.

Her father Geoff was a miner and her mother Elsie was a physical education teacher.

Growing up in relative poverty, Wood's parents pushed their children to get a better education – with her mother transferring to a Quaker school to improve the children's educational opportunities.

Wood attended Ackworth School near Pontefract, West Yorkshire.

She was athletic as a child and hoped for a career as an Olympic sprinter.

1978

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

1987

Wood worked at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital and then at Queen Victoria Hospital before marrying Western Australian born surgeon Tony Kierath and migrating to Perth with their first two children in 1987.

She completed her training in plastic surgery between having four more children.

1991

In 1991, Wood became the first female plastic surgeon in Western Australia.

1992

Her business came about after a schoolteacher arrived at Royal Perth Hospital in 1992 with petrol burns to 90% of his body.

Wood turned to the emerging US-invented technology of cultured skin to save his life, working nights in a laboratory along with scientist Marie Stoner.

The two women began to explore tissue engineering.

They moved from growing skin sheets to spraying skin cells; earning a worldwide reputation as pioneers in their field.

1993

In 1993, Wood began working with medical scientist Marie Stoner on tissue engineering.

They focused on a particularly painful pain point – burn treatments.

Through their work, Wood and Stoner were able to greatly decrease skin culturing time and greatly reduce permanent scarring in burns victims.

The company started operating in 1993 and now cultures small biopsies into bigger volumes of skin cell suspensions in as few as five days.

This service is used by surgeons in Sydney, Auckland and Birmingham.

Cells can be delivered via aircraft and ready for use the next day in many cases.

Royalties from licensing will be ploughed back into a research fund, named the McComb Foundation.

2002

In October 2002, Wood was propelled into the media spotlight when the largest proportion of survivors from the 2002 Bali bombings arrived at Royal Perth Hospital.

She led a team working to save 28 patients who had between 2 and 92 per cent body burns, deadly infections and delayed shock.

2003

She was named a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2003.

2005

She was named Australian of the Year for 2005 by Australian Prime Minister John Howard at a ceremony in Canberra to mark Australia Day.

2006

In 2006, she attracted criticism for publicly endorsing the drug brand Nurofen.

The profits from this endorsement went to the McComb Foundation, of which she was the chairwoman.

The Australian Medical Association subsequently advised doctors against "endorsement of therapeutic goods".

Wood later said of the endorsement that she "would not explore it again because I believe the negative perception outweighs the gain … I believe it was a mistake for me personally".

In 2022, she released her biography, 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.

This reduction hinged on the types of skin harvested; Wood focused her efforts on thinner skin which took less time for enzyme solutions to penetrate.

Through research, she found that scarring is greatly reduced if replacement skin could be provided – within 10 days.

This is because closing the wound quickly greatly decreases the chance of infection one of the greatest causes of severe scarring.

As a burns specialist the Holy Grail for Wood is "scarless woundless healing".

Wood started a company now called Avita Medical to commercialise the procedure.

2007

In March 2007, following the crash landing of Garuda Indonesia Flight 200, Wood travelled to Yogyakarta, to assist in the emergency medical response for burn patients.