Dr Fiona Wood—Burns surgery and spray-on skin

Dr Fiona Wood is an Australian plastic surgeon with 20+ years experience specialising in burns. She is a consultant plastic surgeon at Fiona Stanley Hospital and Perth Children’s Hospital. She is also the Director of the Burns Service of Western Australia and is the co-founder of the first skin cell laboratory in WA. Her lab uses a technology that involves spray-on skin to help patients recover from severe burns.

Dr Wood was named a Member of the Order of Australia in 2003. That same year and a year later she won Western Australian Citizen of the Year for her contribution to the field of burns research. A year later in 2005, her contribution to burns care was further recognised when she won Australia’s highest accolade, Australian of the Year.