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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.
Laser surgery is a type of surgery that cuts tissue using a laser in contrast to using a scalpel. [1]Soft-tissue laser surgery is used in a variety of applications in humans (general surgery, neurosurgery, ENT, dentistry, orthodontics, [2] and oral and maxillofacial surgery) as well as veterinary [3] surgical fields.
Bath invented the Laserphaco Probe in 1981 which used lasers to treat cataracts more precisely and less painfully. The invention was able to recover vision for people who had been blind or vision ...
The following is a list of notable African-American women who have made contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.. An excerpt from a 1998 issue of Black Issues in Higher Education by Juliane Malveaux reads: "There are other reasons to be concerned about the paucity of African American women in science, especially as scientific occupations are among the ...
Her "laserphaco" device is certainly not commonly used and there is a surprising lack of information about it in the mainstream ophthalmology sources. It has certainly not transformed modern cataract surgery as some sources suggest, and others are credited with first performing the technique [1] .
But the "laserphaco probe" doesn't even have its own Wikipedia article, so regrettably I have to conclude that it's not a very notable medical device. If I'm wrong about that, would somebody please correct the oversight that is the lack of an article about the laserphaco probe.
African Americans have been the victims of oppression, discrimination and persecution throughout American history, with an impact on African-American innovation according to a 2014 study by economist Lisa D. Cook, which linked violence towards African Americans and lack of legal protections over the period from 1870 to 1940 with lowered innovation. [1]
George Robert Carruthers (October 1, 1939 – December 26, 2020) [1] [2] was an American space physicist and engineer.Carruthers perfected a compact and very powerful ultraviolet camera/spectrograph for NASA to use when it launched Apollo 16 in 1972.