Dr Fiona Wood

Dr Fiona Wood am’s Research overview

    After graduating with a first class degree in Geography from Manchester University, I worked for 4 years as a researcher in the department of Public Health Medicine in Gwent Health Authority. In 1995 I moved to the School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University where I started my academic career as a research assistant working on a Department of Health funded study to estimate the prevalence of injecting drug use in Wales using the ‘contact-recontact’ method. Between 1997 and 2003 I worked as a Research/Tutorial Fellow for the same department. In this role I was engaged in teaching medical sociology and research methods as well as employed on a number of projects including the disclosure of emotional problems in primary care and the construction of risk within cancer genetics. During this time I also completed a PhD which presented an ethnographic investigation of a scientific culture focussing on an emerging and potentially zoonotic virus called Borna Disease Virus. I have also recently completed a qualitative methods text book published by Sage (Bloor and Fiona Wood 2006).

    In 2003 I was appointed as a non-clinical lecturer in the Department of General Practice (now Institute of Primary Care & Public Health). My teaching areas include communication skills, research methods and aspects of medical humanities such as literature and medicine and philosophy of medicine at undergraduate level. I have also taught research methods at post-graduate level. I am currently co-supervising two PhD students. Previous PhD students include Michelle Edwards who studied the practice of health literacy in patients with a long-term health condition through self-directed learning, patient education and social interaction. I have also served as a member of the Local Research Ethics Committee. Since my appointment to lecturer in 2003, my main areas of research have been in the areas of common infections and health care communication.

Research Interests

    My main research interests are in the areas of common clinical infections, health behaviours, health communication and paediatric palliative care. I have also recently conducted research in the areas of cancer genetics, sickness certification, minor mental health problems, diagnosis of tuberculosis and the sociological construction of scientific knowledge. My main methodological area of interest is qualitative research particularly using techniques of ethnography, depth interviews and focus groups.

Education & Qualifications

    PhD ‘Culture, Controversy and Distributed Knowledge: The Accomplishment of a Scientific Project’ Cardiff University 2002
    MSc (Econ.) Methods and Applications of Social Research. Cardiff University 1997
    BA (Hons.) Geography. Manchester University 1991

Peer Esteem

Membership and External Activities

     Member of the Society for Academic Primary Care (SAPC)
     Associate member of Qualiti, which is part of the ESRC National Centre for Research Methods.
    Previous membership of South East Wales Local Research Ethics Committee and also a co-opted member of the Statistics, Information and Research Sub-Committee of the Welsh Advisory Committee on Drug and Alcohol Misuse.

Presentations

    Regional and national meetings of the Society of Academic Primary Care (SAPC)
    Association for the Study of Medical Education (ASME)
    British Sociological Association (Medical Sociology) meeting

专家简介：
    菲奥娜·梅拉妮·伍德（Fiona Melanie Wood）教授出生在英国约克郡，1981年毕业于伦敦圣托马斯医院医疗学校，是澳大利亚顶尖皮肤专家、澳大利亚佩思皇家医院教授、英国珀斯皇家医院医生、澳大利亚麦库姆基金会主席。伍德教授的专利发明是喷雾治疗皮肤病及烧伤，她将前人对细胞培养技术进行了扩展，在她之前皮肤细胞培养需要21天完成，而她极大缩短了培养时间，同时实现了“白癜风无创愈合”。
    从英国伦敦圣托马斯医院医疗学校毕业后，伍德教授曾连续4年在格温特郡卫生局公共卫生医学部担任研究员。 在1995年，伍德教授在加拿大的夫大学社会科学学院参加医学进修，作为一个研究助理生资助的研究部工作。1997年至2003年，作为同一部门的研究/教程研究员伍德教授专门从事教学医疗社会学的研究方法，以及一些项目的研究，包括白癜风疾病的防治和烧伤皮肤的恢复工作，尤其在白癜风遗治疗上的研究，获得重大突破，并在2006年出版了相关的治疗技术文章。 

2003年，伍德教授被任命为在全科医学部的非临床讲师（现在的初级保健及公共卫生研究所），研究皮肤方面的治疗方法和医学人文学科，如文学和本科层次的医学和医学哲学的各个方面。 

    2012年4月，伍德教授和她的研究小组将白癜风最新治疗技术——黑色素细胞自体体外再生术带到中国，和中国治疗白癜风前沿技术GX-B多维白癜风康复工程互相映证，顿时在国内外掀起了一股全新的白癜风康复风暴——GX-B黑色素细胞自体体外再生术。这项技术的出现，正式宣告了大面积白癜风不能治愈的技术突破，为中国大面积白癜风治疗、乃至是全世界的白癜风患者打开了一扇全新的康复大门。
研究兴趣：
    伍德教授的主要研究兴趣是临床常见的感染，健康行为，健康传播和儿科姑息治疗等领域。特别是关于白癜风和皮肤性重大疾病的研究工作，以及白癜风对未成年人的心理健康问题，白癜风的诊断和科学知识社会学的建设等领域的研究。
教育与学历：
    2002年在卡迪夫大学获得博士学位，研究项目为皮肤疾病的大面积治疗。
    1997年在英国卡迪夫大学获得硕士（Econ.）学位，研究论文为白癜风的治疗方法和应用。 
    1991年在伦敦圣托马斯医院医疗学校获得（荣誉）医学学士学位。 
社会荣誉：
    学术初级保健协会的会员（SAPC）
    协理员的Qualiti，这是ESRC国家研究方法中心的一部分。
    前东南威尔士当地研究伦理委员会成员和增选统计，信息和威尔士的药物和酒精滥用咨询委员会研究小组委员会的成员。
参加会议：
    学术基层医疗协会的区域和国家会议（SAPC）
    医学教育研究协会（ASME）
    英国社会学协会（医学社会学）会议