Patricia Bath Biography

Patricia Era Bath is an American ophthalmologist inventor and academic. She has broken ground for women and African Americans in a number of areas. Prior to Bath no woman had served on the staff of the Jules Stein Eye Institute headed a post-graduate training program in ophthalmology or been elected to the honorary staff of the UCLA Medical Center (an honor bestowed on her after her retirement). Before Bath no black person had served as a resident in ophthalmology at New York University and no black woman had ever served on staff as a surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center. Bath is the first African-American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical purpose. The holder of four patents she also founded the company of the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness in Washington D.C. Contact a speaker booking agent to check availability on Patricia Bath and other top speakers and celebrities.

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