MARK A. WOOD, MD

mwoodmd@pol.net

A native of Memphis, Dr. Wood received his undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and his medical degree from the University of Tennessee Center for the Health Sciences in Memphis in 1983. He graduated from both institutions with the highest honors. He then came to the Medical College of Virginia at Virginia Commonwealth University for his residency training and three fellowships in research and clinical cardiology as well as cardiac electrophysiology. He completed an additional fellowship in cardiac electrophysiology at the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville. In 1991, he returned to the MCV Campus as assistant professor of internal medicine and achieved the rank of professor in 2004. He also has been assistant director of the Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratories on the MCV Campus since 1991.

Dr. Wood’s research interests involve cardiac electrophysiology, arrhythmias, pacemakers, defibrillation, atrial fibrillation and anti-arrhythmic drugs. With a long history of federal and private industry funding, Dr. Wood has authored or co-authored nearly 200 research papers, which have been published in highly respected medical journals along with more than 45 invited papers he has published. Dr. Wood has made nearly 200 presentations at such venues as grand rounds, conferences and symposia, professional societies, medical centers and hospitals across the country and around the world. He serves as an ad hoc reviewer for 15 highly respected medical journals. He is editor of textbooks on cardiac and defibrillators as well as catheter ablation of cardiac arrhythmias.

Among his honors, Dr. Wood was named Honorary Professor at the Chao Yang Red Cross Hospital in Beijing, China in 1994. He was invited to serve two times as co-chairman at the Radiofrequency Ablation Conference at the Great Wall, Beijing, in 1991 and 1994, and was invited to present, “Introduction to Radiofrequency Ablation” at the Clinica Carlos Ardilla Lulle in Bucaramonga, Columbia, where he performed six live RF ablation procedures. An outstanding educator, Dr. Wood won the Clinical Cardiology Fellows Faculty Teaching Award in 1998, Dept of Medicine Distinquished Faculty Teaching Award in 2004 and the Outstanding Teacher Award in Undergraduate Medical Education from the second year medical class, cardiovascular division, for six years.