Dr. Wood attended medical school at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, as well as an orthopedic surgery residency at that same institution. He then moved to Charlotte, North Carolina to complete a fellowship in adult spine surgery. In 1991, he moved back to Jackson and has been in private practice ever since. As his medical career progressed, Dr. Wood took interest in the surgical treatment of cervical and lumbar disc herniations in adults. Dr. Wood was born in 1958 in Jackson, Mississippi and has been a Jackson resident his entire life.