A Pioneering Physician And An Inventor With Four Patents

Patricia Bath is the first African American to complete a residency in ophthalmology and the first African-American female doctor to receive a medical patent. Later she bagged four medical patents in total. She invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment which created a paradigm shift in ophthalmology surgery. Born in New York, in 1942, Patricia Bath became a pioneering American ophthalmologist, innovator and advocate of the movement in eradicating blindness.

Pioneering woman in ophthalmology In 1973, Patricia Bath became the first African-American to complete a residency in ophthalmology. She moved to California the following year to work as an assistant professor of surgery at both Charles R. Drew University and the University of California, Los Angeles. In 1975, she became the first female faculty member in the Department of Ophthalmology at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute.…