Patricia Baird

Patricia Ann Baird
Born (1939-10-11) 11 October 1939
Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England
Fields geneticist
Institutions University of British Columbia
Notable awards Order of Canada
Order of British Columbia

Patricia Ann Baird, OC OBC (born 11 October 1939)[1] is a British geneticist active in Canada. Her research has specialized on the relationship between medical technology and ethics.[2]

Born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England, the daughter of Harold and Winifred Cainen Holt, she was educated at the Queen Mary School for Girls in Lytham, Lancashire. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University in 1959 and a M.D., C.M. in 1963. She married Robert Merrifield Baird in 1964. They had three children.[3]

She is a University Distinguished Professor, Department of Medical Genetics at the University of British Columbia.[4] She was Chair of the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies.[2]

Honours

In 1992, she was made a Member of the Order of British Columbia.[5] In 2000, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in recognition for being "a contributor to science, public policy and the advancement of women".[2] In 2001, she was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.[3] She was presented the Cooper Ornithological Society Harry R. Painton Award in 2013,[6] along with her co-authors Hope M. Draheim and Susan M. Haig, for their paper entitled “Temporal analysis of mtDNA variation reveals decreased genetic diversity in Least Terns”[7] published in The Condor.

References

  1. ↑ Ernest Kay (1990). The World who's who of women: Volume 10.
  2. 1 2 3 "Order of Canada citation".
  3. 1 2 Elizabeth Lumley. Canadian Who's Who 2002. University of Toronto Press. p. 55.
  4. ↑ "Patricia Baird".
  5. ↑ "Order of British Columbia citation".
  6. ↑ "Harry R. Painton Award 2013, to Hope M. Draheim, Patricia Baird, and Susan M. Haig". The Condor. 116 (1): 148. 2014-01-29. doi:10.1650/CONDOR-13-158.1. ISSN 0010-5422.
  7. ↑ Draheim, Hope M.; Baird, Patricia; Haig, Susan M. (2012-02-01). "Temporal Analysis of mtDNA Variation Reveals Decreased Genetic Diversity in Least Terns". The Condor. 114 (1): 145–154. doi:10.1525/cond.2012.110007. ISSN 0010-5422.


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