Richard J. Wood, MD, is a pediatric general and colorectal surgeon serving as the Chief of the Department of Colorectal and Pelvic Reconstructive at Nationwide Children's Hospital and Professor of Surgery at The Ohio State University. He trained in General Surgery in the United Kingdom and South Africa and completed his Pediatric Surgery training at the Red Cross Children's Memorial Hospital in Cape Town. He subsequently completed a Pediatric Colorectal Fellowship at Nationwide Children's. His areas of interest are complex pelvic reconstructive surgery, including anorectal malformations, cloacal malformations and Hirschsprung disease. His research interests focus on clinical colorectal and outcomes research, and he serves on the Executive Committee and ARM and Cloacal working groups of the Pediatric Colorectal and Pelvic Learning Consortium (PCPLC) which is an international consortium of surgeons performing multi-center research in this field.