Dr. Wood completed her undergraduate and medical degrees in the combined B.A/M.D program from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, followed by training in internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, where she served as Chief Medical Resident. Dr. Wood joined the staff of Massachusetts General Hospital in 2000, where she founded and co-directed the Corrigan Women’s Heart Health Program and the MGH Multidisciplinary SCAD Program. She served as the Associate Chief of Cardiology for Diversity and Health Equity and is on the Steering Committee of the iSCAD Registry and is a past Chair of the ACC Board of Governors and former Trustee and Secretary of the ACC. She most recently served as the Vice President and Chief Physician Executive of the Lee Health Heart Institute in Fort Myers, Florida and Professor of Medicine at the Florida State University College of Medicine. She is the 2025 recipient of the ACC Bernadine Healy Leadership in Cardiovascular Disease in Women Award.