The Unknown Dr. Patricia Era Bath Inventor, Scientist and Ophthalmologist in the U.S.A.

Patricia Era Bath was born in 4th November, 1942 to a Afro- Trinidadian Father and African- American Mother in Harlem, New York.  Dr. Bath was an Inventor, Scientist and Ophthalmologist. She has broken ground for women, her dad was a newspaper columnist and seaman. He was the first black man to hold this position in the New York City Subway as a motorman. Her father was proud of his culture and encouraged her daughter to explore her culture and other cultures. Her mother was a direct descendant of Africans captured from the African Soil to America enslaved by the Europeans. Her mother decided to be a housekeeper to raise her children. Dr. Bath faced racism and the whites treated her unfairly. She was motivated by the advice of her mother that she should prove the whites wrong both academically and otherwise. Dr. Bath attended Charles Evans High School and grew up in a society which blacks could not attend the same school as whites and most blacks who wanted to go to medical school were rejected by the whites. Even going to Medical School was a very big challenge. Dr. Bath won scholarship and attended Yeshiva University which led her to do her own research projects and even in Harlem when she went to a Hospital Center, she focused on Studies on cancer, nutrition and stress. And later she published her Scientific research in 1960. Dr. Bath won Merit award for contributing to the maganize project known as Mandemoiselle and She received her Bachelors of Arts degree in Chemistry from the Manhattan Hunter's College in Washington, DC. Later she received her doctoral degree in 1968 and she became President of the National Association and received fellowship from National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Patricia Era Bath's Inventions in U.S.A, Canada , Europe and Japan.

She holds four patents in USA, Canada, Europe and Japan and conceived the Laserphaco Probe a medical device that improves on the use of laser to remove cataracts and for ablating and removing of contaract lenses.  She became first black women to served as a resident in Opthalmology at New York University and She founded the company of American Institute for prevention of Blindness in Washington, DC. During the period from 1968 to 1970 and became aware of the practice of eye care. She granted a patent for a method devised for using Ultrasound technology to treat cataracts and Dr. Patricia Bath was honored by two universities she attended for hall of fame in 1993 and According to Mr. Slate Stone no woman had served on the staff of the Jules Stein Eye Institute. In 1973, she became the first black woman to work as assistant Professor of Surgery for both C. R. University and University of California. Her invention of the Laserphaco Probe was able to help restore the sight of people who were blind for more than 30 years and she changed the face of medicine in United States of America.

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