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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.
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 ...
Patricia Bath: ophthalmologist, inventor: 1942-2019: Pioneered laser surgery to remove cataracts: Regina Benjamin: physician: 1956-18th Surgeon General of the United States: Angela Benton: internet entrepreneur: 1981-Founder of NewME, Streamlytics, and Black Web 2.0: Carlotta Berry: electrical engineer, professor, roboticist: 1970-
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]
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 ...
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In 2017 Dr. Bath's role in the founding of community ophthalmology was recognized by Medscape as one of the "14 Women Physicians who Changed the Course of American Medicine." In 2021 the English National Health Service started a program to allow hospital ophthalmologists to access records, referrals, and diagnostic images from high street ...
Patricia Bath patents the Laserphaco Probe, a device "for ablating and removing cataract lenses". [10] [11] Technology