Dr. Philip A. Wood graduated from Kansas State University College of Veterinary Medicine in 1980 (DVM, MS -Pathology) and from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Medicine Graduate School in 1983 (PhD in Pathology). He was then on the faculty at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston for 5 years before returning to the faculty at UAB for 20 years. In 2008 he was appointed Professor at the Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute in Lake Nona. In 2017, after having an NIH funded laboratory for 30 years, Dr. Wood retired from medical research and academics, and returned to his original passion for clinical practice at Chickasaw Trail Animal Hospital. He focuses on internal medicine, especially metabolic/endocrine diseases, and nutrition of which he did research, taught, and published on for decades. One of his early research accomplishments was validating the use of hemoglobin A1c measurements to evaluate diabetic dogs. Over the years he diagnosed and characterized several rare inherited metabolic diseases in dogs, cats, horses, cattle and mice.  

Outside the hospital, Dr. Wood enjoys golf, and cycling with his wife Judy. They also are very fond of their two rescued Labrador Retriever mix dogs Abby and Walter, as well as catching up with their two adult sons John and Joseph.