Ian Ford (statistician)
Ian Ford is a Scottish biostatistician and professor at the University of Glasgow. He leads the Robertson Centre for Biostatistics and has directed the Glasgow Clinical Trials Unit. He also served as Dean of the Faculty of Information and Mathematical Sciences.
Born in Glasgow and educated at Hamilton Academy, he studied at the University of Glasgow, earning a BSc and a PhD in Statistics in 1976. He spent 1976–77 as a visiting lecturer at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, then held a series of academic posts at Glasgow, becoming the university’s first Chair of Biostatistics.
Ford has led the Robertson Centre since 1991. He serves on editorial boards for Statistical Methods in Medical Research, Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, and PLOS Medicine, and has published many papers. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1999 and is also a fellow of the International Statistical Institute and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
He participates in collaborations such as the Cholesterol Trialists Collaboration and the Fibrinogen Studies Collaboration and is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Statistical Association, Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry, the Drug Information Association, the Royal Statistical Society, and the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics. He was Dean of the Faculty of Information and Mathematical Sciences at Glasgow from 2000 to 2004.
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