Specialist Anaesthetist

Dr Richard Wood

MB ChB Dip RTM (RCS ed) FCAI FRCA

Qualifications:

  • Fellow the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists
  • Fellow the Royal College of Anaesthetists (UK)
  • Diploma of Retrieval Medicine (Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh)
  • Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery University of Dundee

Special Interests:

  • Anaesthesia for Obstetric & Gynaecological Surgery
  • Anaesthesia for General Surgery
  • Anaesthesia for Orthopaedics
  • Medical Education

Current Appointments:

  • Specialist Anaesthetic Services
  • Consultant Anaesthetist Flinders Medical Centre
  • Supervisor of Training (ANZCA)
  • Rural Generalist Examiner
  • Clinical Lecturer Flinders University
  • EMAC (Effective Management of Anaesthetic Crisis) Instructor

Biography:

  • Graduated University of Dundee 2010
  • Junior doctor in Oban and Aberdeen, Scotland
  • Anaesthetic training for 3 years in Lanarkshire, West of Scotland
  • Moved to Australia to work in retrieval medicine with Medstar 2016
  • Anaesthetic training with SANTRATS in South Australia 2017
  • Fellowships in Obstetrics, Simulation and Education at Flinders Medical Centre and Retrieval Medicine with Medstar. In 2022-2023