ANNUAL GENETICS AND GENEALOGY LECTURE"Call me Lucy"

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Dr. Baird graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Biology and from Stanford University School of Medicine. He is Emeritus Professor of Clinical Pathology at UCSD School of Medicine. He received the Distinguished Teaching Award from the UCSD Division of the UC Academic Senate, the UCSD Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and three UCSD Medical School's Kaiser Teaching Awards. His research interests are in lymphomas and leukemias, and more recently prostate cancer stem cells. Dr. Baird is also a composer and lyricist of his own unique musical genre - Scientific Gospel. His band, The Galapagos Mountain Boys (formerly The Opossums of Truth) perform semi-regularly, singing songs about science and social issues from his six CDs. He is presently composing genealogy songs about his family's migration to the United States from Europe in the 18th century.