Stephen P. Wood (Senior Scientific Editor)

Stephen P. Wood, MS, ACNP-BC

Stephen is an acute care nurse practitioner and director of advanced practice providers in the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center. Prior to this he spent 11 years practicing as a nurse practitioner in emergency medicine and still works in the emergency department at the Carney Hospital in Boston. His roots are in EMS, and he has over 30 years of field experience, including nine years as a flight paramedic. Most recently, he was a medic for a regional SWAT team and an event EMT for the Boston Red Sox. His EMS involvement currently includes his work with the FDNY EMS fellowship and with training various fire departments in Rescue Task Force. He is an instructor in the School of Nursing at Northeastern University in the graduate nursing program and is a graduate scholar of the Harvard Macy Institute program for Healthcare Educators. He is a former fellow in Bioethics at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School and a current visiting researcher at the Petrie-Flom Center at the Harvard Law School Petrie-Flom Center for Health Policy. He holds a Master of Science in Nursing as well as a Master of Science in Toxicology. He is a podcaster and conference host for World Extreme Medicine. He has a number of scholarly publications including book chapters, peer-reviewed articles and blogs. His hobbies include writing, reading, magic and lobstering.