JOHN GREENWOOD

John Greenwood biography
John Greenwood (aka Dr. John Edward Greenwood AM) originated from Lancashire UK, where he grew up, schooled and studied medicine at the University of Manchester. Finishing his training in plastic surgery, he and his family emigrated to Adelaide, Australia in 2001, where he became director of the Adult Burns Centre at the Royal Adelaide Hospital.

For the next 20 years he developed the service and was made an Honorary Member of the Order of Australia in October 2003 for his response to the 2002 Bali Bombings. He was also awarded Doctor of Health Sciences in 2013 for a thesis documenting the establishment of the Adult Burns Service in South Australia, as well as being 2016 South Australian of the Year and Hunterian Professor of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

He retired from all clinical practice in October 2020 to concentrate on his family life and his love of music, though still intends to be involved in his research projects (Composite Cultured Skin (CCS) for burn injuries, and Intracutaneous Ectopic Pancreas (IEP) for type 1 diabetes).

He now describes himself as a guitarist, writer, arranger, orchestrator, sometime pianist, bassist and drummer, and fortuitously he met Mark Trueack (Unitopia, Southern Empire) after a hand injury robbed his mate Jimmy Keegan of a place in UPF Acoustic. John took over the role instead, and interesting twists on some parts of Unitopia's back catalogue made Mark think that a Unitopia revival with new blood might be on the cards.

John also became good friends with Mark Trueack's partner in Unitopia and Southern Empire Sean Timms, and they worked together well on John's solo work as well as new Unitopia material destined to be released very soon as the album 'Seven Chambers'.

John Greenwood's debut album 'Dark Blue' was three years in the making from the composition of the first song to the final publishing as a digital product. Former Genesis guitarist Steve Hackett describes the album as a feast of lush and varied music covering a wide pallet of sounds and genres with thought-provoking lyrics.

(biography provided by David/yam yam)