Professor Fiona Wood is the Director of the Burns Service of Western Australia and a Member of the Order of Australia. She was named Australian of the Year in 2005 for her contribution to burns care. Tune in to this episode to hear about how she practices her mantra, “to learn from today, to make tomorrow better”, through her career as a clinician scientist, pioneering ‘spray on skin’. We also delve into how she has applied the lessons she has learnt from her passion in athletics to her surgical career, and how she achieved work-life balance raising six children with her husband, who is also a surgeon.