Medical Advisory Board Dalhousie University Halifax, NS
Dr. Wood is a Medical Oncologist at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre, Halifax, NS, as well as a Professor in the Department of Medicine at Dalhousie University with a cross appointment in the Department of Urology. She completed her Medical Oncology training at the Cross Cancer Institute in Edmonton, Alberta and a Masters of Science in Epidemiology from the Harvard School of Public Health. She spent two years on faculty at the MD Anderson Cancer Centre, in Houston, Texas, in the Department of Genitourinary Oncology before moving to Halifax in 2000.
Dr. Wood is a member of the NCIC Genitourinary Disease Site Group and an active member of the Nova Scotia Cancer Care Program Genitourinary Cancer Site Team. She is involved in all levels of undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing medical education and serves as a mentor and supervisor for students and residents.
Dr. Wood is actively involved in phase II and III clinical trials in genitourinary malignancies with a specific clinical and research interest in kidney and bladder cancer.