Burns specialist to speak at UOW symposium

The University of Wollongong will host Australia’s leading burns surgeon and medical innovator tonight.

Dr Fiona Wood from the University of Western Australia, and Royal Perth Hospital, will be the keynote speaker at the 2026 Bill Wheeler Symposium.

Dr Wood is widely recognised, for pioneering spray-on skin technology, and was awarded 2005 Australian of the Year, because of her leadership of the medical response during the 2002 Bali bombings.