Dr Martin Wood

Adult and Paediatric neurosurgery; including fetal surgery for spina bifida, spinal surgery, complex tumour surgery including base of skull, surgery for trigeminal neuralgia and hemifacial spasm, the treatment of hydrocephalus and surgery for epilepsy, acoustic neuroma and meningioma and endoscopy.

Dr Martin Wood is a consultant neurosurgeon at Mater Private Hospital Brisbane, Mater Children's Private Brisbane, and Queensland Children's Hospital. Dr Wood also visits Mater Private Hospital Rockhampton.

He trained in neurosurgery in Australia before travelling to undertake further subspecialty training in Europe. This consisted of fellowships in skull base neurosurgery in Cambridge, United Kingdom and paediatric neurosurgery in Paris.

Dr Wood’s special interest areas in adult neurosurgery include skull base tumours such as acoustic neuromas and meningiomas, trigeminal neuralgia and minimally invasive surgery of the brain and spine. He also specialises in neurosurgical disorders of childhood, surgery for epilepsy, fetal surgery for spina bifida and spinal neurosurgery.

Dr Wood consults at Brisbane Clinical Neuroscience Centre.

• Mater Private Hospital Brisbane