Dr Simon Wood

Dr Wood is a member of the College of Surgeons Transplant Executive and is also the Director of Urology at Princess Alexandra Hospital.

He has extensive experience in:

• Laparoscopic and robotic kidney surgery
  
• Laparoscopic prostatectomy
  
• Laparoscopic and percutaneous surgery
  
• Endo-urological surgery for renal stones, bladder cancer and prostatectomy
  
• Major open surgery for advanced cancer including vena cava tumor thrombus and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection
  
• Renal transplantation

Dr Wood graduated from the University of Queensland in 1996 and completed his surgical fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons in Brisbane. Simon completed further urological and transplant surgical training in Dublin, Ireland. He subsequently undertook post fellowship training and is accredited in robotic surgery.

He is the principal investigator in a number of clinical trials in advanced renal and prostate cancer and is a member of the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre and the Centre for Kidney Disease Research at the Translational Research Institute.