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 Patricia Bath

Patricia Era Bath was born on November 4, 1942 in Harlem, New York. She is an ophthalmologist and a laser scientist. Her significant achievement includes, invention of new device and technique for cataract, known as laserphaco. She was appointed as the first woman chair of ophthalmology in the United States, at Drew-UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) in 1983.
In 1988, she received a patent for a device, designed to remove cataracts with fiber optic laser. She was the first woman ophthalmologist at UCLA's Jules Stein Eye Institute and the first African-American surgeon at UCLA Medical Center.