Dr. Wood Bio
Dr. Elena Wood received her medical degree (1994) from the Siberian State Medical
University (SSMU), Russia, where she was trained in general medicine and medical informatics.
She has PhD in general oncology and medical informatics (1998) from the Cancer Research
Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. She
served (1993-2004) as Medical Informatics Specialist at SSMU Medical Center, becoming
Assistant Professor at SSMU Department of Public Health and Health Care (2001-2004).
She was a National Council for Eurasian and East European Research Carnegie Foundation fellow in telemedicine (2002) at the Medical College of Georgia (MCG) Center for Telehealth, Augusta, GA. She joined the center in 2004 and moved to the MCG Academic Affairs in 2016. In 2007 she had a fellowship in Biomedical Informatics at the Marine Biological Laboratory, National Library of Medicine. In 2011 she received the degree of Master in Clinical and Translational Science from the MCG, College of Graduate Studies. In 2015 she completed her educational research fellowship at the Innovation Educational Institute at the MCG.
She is physical diagnosis preceptor and academic advisor to medical students. She is actively involved in program evaluation and educational research within the Academic Affairs and regional medical campuses. Her professional interests include designing and developing innovations and utilization of instructional technologies in medical education. She has published more than 70 journal articles, book chapters, and abstracts.