Stephen P. Wood 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 in Brighton, Mass. Prior to this, he spent 11 years practicing as a nurse practitioner in emergency medicine.

His roots are in emergency medical services and he has more than 30 years of field experience, including 10 as a flight paramedic. He is an instructor in the graduate nursing program at Northeastern University’s School of Nursing and is a graduate scholar of the Harvard Macy Institute program for Healthcare Educators.

Wood is a former fellow in bioethics at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School and a current visiting researcher at Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics. Wood holds a Master of Science in Nursing as well as a Master of Science in Toxicology. He is a fellow and podcaster for World Extreme Medicine.