7 Black Women Who Made Medical History
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Dr. Patricia Bath
1942 to 2019
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Patricia Bath devoted her life to fighting blindness. She was the first Black person to complete an ophthalmology residency at the New York University’s School of Medicine, and she was the first female faculty member at the UCLA School of Medicine’s ophthalmology department.
Dr. Bath later founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness. But her biggest claim to fame came when she invented the Laserphaco probe in 1986, which was used to treat cataracts. Through this invention, Dr. Bath became the first Black woman to receive a patent for a medical device.
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