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Wood was born in Yorkshire , England, on 2 February , the third of four children. Her father Geoff was a miner and her mother Elsie was a physical education teacher.

Fiona wood achievements

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. She was athletic as a child and hoped for a career as an Olympic sprinter. She completed her training in plastic surgery between having four more children.

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

In October , Wood was propelled into the media spotlight when the largest proportion of survivors from the 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.