 Sheila Bird

Sheila Macdonald Bird (née Gore, born 18 May 1952) OBE FRSE FMedSci is a Scottish biostatistician whose assessment of misuse of statistics in the "British Medical Journal" ("BMJ") and "BMJ" series ‘Statistics in Question’ led to statistical guidelines for contributors to medical journals.Bird's doctoral work on non-proportional hazards in breast cancer found application in organ transplantation where beneficial matching was the basis for UK's allocation of cadaveric kidneys for a decade.