Injury and Trauma Health Network
Clinical Prof. Fiona Wood
Clinical Professor Fiona Wood is currently Director of the Western Australian Burns Service. She is the Chairman of the McComb Research Foundation established in 1999 with scientist Marie Stoner.
Clinical Prof. Wood is co-founder and a director of Clinical Cell Culture (C3) a skin tissue engineering company and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board. In addition, she is a consultant Plastic Surgeon to Royal Perth and Princess Margaret Hospitals.
Clinical Prof. Wood’s research through the McComb Foundation involves several collaborative research projects focused on the multi-disciplinary clinical and scientific team approach to the treatment of burn injury. The ultimate aim is scarless healing to ensure the quality of the outcome is worth the pain of survival.
In 2004 Clinical Prof. Wood was named West Australian of the Year and was also nominated as a National Living Treasure and Australian Citizen of the Year. In 2005 she received the honour of being named Australian of the Year.