Professor Fiona Wood is a British born plastic and reconstructive surgeon currently working in Perth. She is the director of the Burns Service of WA, director of the Burn Injury Research Unit at UWA, co-founder of the company Clinical Cell Culture (now Avita Medical) and the McComb Research Foundation (along with Professor Marie Stoner) now the Fiona Wood Foundation.
 
She has become world-renowned for her patented invention of spray-on skin cells for burns victims, a treatment that is continually developing focused on reducing the time to healing reduced scarring. Fiona Wood leads a busy life as a highly experienced burns specialist and as a mother of six.
 
Perhaps one of her most notable achievements was her leadership and management when in October 2002, the largest proportion of survivors from the 2002 Bali bombings when she led the team at Royal Perth Hospital.
 
Professor Fiona Wood was awarded a member of the Order of Australia in 2003 and named Australian of the Year in 2005. Also in 2005, Fiona was awarded the Clunnies Ross award from the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering with co-worker medical scientist Marie Stoner.
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