18 Facts About Fiona Wood

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Fiona Melanie Wood was born on 2 February 1958 and is an English-born Australian plastic surgeon working in Perth, Western Australia.

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Fiona Wood is the director of the Royal Perth Hospital burns unit and the Western Australia Burns Service.

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Fiona Wood's father Geoff was a miner and her mother Elsie was a physical education teacher.

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

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Fiona 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.

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

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

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8.

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

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

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

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Fiona Wood was named a Member of the Order of Australia in 2003.

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

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

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Fiona Wood has become well known for her patented invention of spray-on skin for burn patients, a treatment which is being continually developed.

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Where previous techniques of skin culturing required 21 days to produce enough cells to cover major burns, Fiona Wood has reduced the period to five days.

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

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Fiona 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.

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