Acute hospital

Professor Fiona Wood

AM, FRCS, FRACS

Fiona Wood has been a burns surgeon and researcher for over 30 years and is Director of the Burns Service of Western Australia (BSWA).

She is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Fiona Stanley Hospital and Perth Children's Hospital; co-founder of the first skin cell laboratory in WA; Winthrop Professor in the School of Surgery at The University of Western Australia; and co-founder of the Fiona Wood Foundation (formerly The McComb Foundation).

Learn More about Fiona Wood here.

Professor Suzanne Rea 

MB, Bch (Hons), MRCSF, FRCSI(Plast) PhD

Suzanne is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Fiona Stanley Hospital and Perth Children’s Hospital. Her research has been awarded by the Australian and New Zealand Burns Association and the American Burns Association.

Suzanne is currently researching the role of the bone marrow, peripheral nerve and muscle responses to burn injury, as well as supervising epidemiology studies to identify areas for further scientific research. She is also driving research into paediatric burn injuries and outcomes and also is instrumental in our research involving the laser. 

Helen Douglas

Helen is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Fiona Stanley Hospital and Perth Children's Hospital and is instrumental in our research including our work around laser and timing of its intervention, and Vitamin D research.

Dr Kylie Sandy-Hodgetts 

Kylie is a clinical trialist and translational research scientist based at UWA. Her research speciality is prevention of surgical wound complications and she is Chief Investigator of a number of clinical trials. 

Kylie founded the Skin Integrity Clinical Trials Unit based at UWA. She is co-founder of the SKIN (Skin Integrity Network), the founder and President of the International Surgical Wound Complications Advisory Panel (ISWCAP), Past Chair Board of Wounds Australia, and currently serves as an International Committee Member of the World Union of Wound Healing Societies.  

Connect with Kylie | kylie.sandy-hodgetts@uwa.edu.au 

Dr Ed Raby - PhD Candidate

Ed is a Clinical Microbiologist and Infectious Disease Specialist. He is currently studying towards a PhD at UWA. Ed  holds both a Raine Foundation clinical fellowship and the Cynthia Banham research fellowship as well as research grants from the Spinnaker Health Research Foundation and WA Health which have facilitated a programme of research focussing on infection and inflammation following burn injury.

• Development of Rapid Evaporative Ionisation Mass Spectrometry (REIMS) for use in surgery after acute trauma.

• Monitoring the lipidomic profile of acute burn wound healing in adults.

• Early identification and prevention of surgical wound complications.

• The effectiveness and safety of perioperative nutrition in burn injuries: a systematic review.

• Development, distibution and validation of an animated visual tool and picture base printed resource, to ensure culturally secure transfers of regional & remote Aboriginal Burns patients, to the State Adult Burns Unit.

• Collaboration between Breast Cancer Centre and FWF to evaluate the histological and clinical progression of post radiation fibrosis in breast cancer patients.