Person · 1942–2019
Patricia Bath
The ophthalmologist and inventor whose laser device transformed cataract surgery.
A frontier of [[black-science]].
Patricia Bath was the first Black woman doctor to receive a medical patent, for her Laserphaco Probe, and a founder of the discipline of community ophthalmology dedicated to preventing blindness among the underserved.
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Ophthalmologist who invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract surgery, the first African-American woman to receive a patent for a medical invention.