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Patricia Era Bath (November 4, 1942 – May 30, 2019) was an American ophthalmologist and humanitarian. She became the first female member of the Jules Stein Eye Institute , the first woman to lead a post-graduate training program in ophthalmology , and the first woman elected to the honorary staff of the UCLA Medical Center .
Notable past and present Charles R. Drew University faculty members include Patricia Bath, an ophthalmologist and the first black female doctor to receive a medical patent, for inventing a laser treatment for cataracts [60] and Deborah Prothrow-Stith, a pioneer in addressing youth violence as a public health issue and the first woman ...
Three women will be inducted posthumously: Dr. Patricia Bath (1942-2019), an early pioneer of laser cataract surgery and the first Black woman physician to receive a medical patent; Dr. Anna ...
1988: Patricia Bath was the first African American woman to receive a medical patent, which was her invention of laser cataract treatment. [56] 1988: Gertrude B. Elion received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine along with James W. Black and George H. Hitchings "for their discoveries of important principles for drug treatment". [57]
Patricia Bath: 1968 (Medicine) ophthalmologist; first African-American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical invention Louis Arnett Stuart Bellinger: 1914 prominent Pittsburgh architect of the early 20th century David Blackwell: faculty, not alumnus first African American elected to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences: Beth A. Brown ...
VoIP was invented by Dr. Marian Croak, a Black woman. Croak holds over 125 patents in VoIP technology and is Google’s Vice President of Engineering. We wouldn’t have cellphones if it wasn’t ...
Patricia Bath patents the Laserphaco Probe, a device "for ablating and removing cataract lenses". [10] [11] Technology. TAT-8, the first transatlantic telephone ...
The Dane County Medical Examiner's Office on Wednesday evening released the names of Rubi Patricia Vergara, 14, of Madison, Wisconsin, and Erin West, 42, of DeForest, following forensic autopsies.