Qualifications 

Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery - University of Queensland 

Bachelor of Science - University of Queensland 

Dr Walter Wood has taught human gross anatomy for over 45 years to medical, dental,
science and therapy students in teritary institutions (Papuan Medical College &
University of PNG Medical School - 9 years; the University of Queensland 29 years; and
more recently Bond University 5 years). He initiated the first undergraduate and
postgraduate university programmes in Human osteology and Forensic osteology at the
University of Queensland 1991-2001. 

Dr Wood has won excellence in Teaching awards at both the University of Queensland (1990)
and Bond University (2007) 

He has been an Honorary consultant in Human Bone Identification (Forensic Osteology) for
the Police Service in Queensland (1972-2001); and on various occasions for the Police
Services of NSW; Victoria; and the Northern Territory; and has done many consultancies
and workshops for the EPA (Qld) and for private industry. 

His key areas of research are in skeletal identification; decomposition; burial location;
growth and development of the skeleton

Articles

The anatomy of the extrathoracic intercostobrachial nerve (with M G. E. O'Rourke, T S. Tang, S I. Allison, and W Wood), Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery (1999)

Background: In the past decade surgeons have become increasingly aware of the morbidity caused by...

 

Radiographic study of the Broadbeach Aboriginal dentition (with Mark W. Elvery and Neil W. Savage), American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1998)

This study forms part of a larger anthropological investigation of the Ngaraangbal Aboriginal Tribe's ancestral...

 

Soil accumulation of by-products of tissue decomposition and time since death (with Donna M. MacGregor and Douglas J. Brecknell), Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences (1996)
 

Microscopic age changes in the human occipital bone (with S M. Cool, J K. Hendrikz, and W B. Wood), Journal of Forensic Sciences (1995)

The value of histological examination of the human occipital bone for estimation of age-at-death was...

 

Book Chapters

Forensic identification in fatal crocodile attacks, Forensic approaches to death disaster and abuse (2008)

Extract:

Forensic anthropology is the science of identification of unknown individuals by skeletal examination...