Patricia Ann Baird, OC OBC (born 11 October 1937)[1] is a British medical geneticist active in Canada.
[2] Patricia Baird was born in Littleborough, Lancashire, England, the daughter of Harold and Winifred Cainen Holt.
She was the first woman to both be named as chair of a clinical medical department and to be elected to the Board of Governors at the University of British Columbia.
[7] 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".
[8] She was presented the Cooper Ornithological Society Harry R. Painton Award in 2013,[9] 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” published in The Condor.