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Who did Dr Patricia Bath marry?

Who did Dr Patricia Bath marry?

Benny J. Primmm.?–2015
Patricia Bath/Spouse

Did Patricia Bath have a family?

Gladys Bath
Eraka Patty Jene BathBenny J. PrimmRupert Bath
Patricia Bath/Family

When did Dr Patricia Bath get married?

Watson Prize for Outstanding Student in Ophthalmology. From 1970 until 1973, Bath was the first African American resident in ophthalmology at New York University’s School of Medicine. During this time, she married and gave birth to a daughter, Eraka, in 1972.

Is Dr Patricia Bath still alive?

Deceased (1942–2019)
Patricia Bath/Living or Deceased

How did Patricia Bath died?

Patricia Bath, a pioneering ophthalmologist who became the first African American female doctor to receive a medical patent after she invented a more precise treatment of cataracts, has died. Bath died on May 30 from complications of cancer at a University of California San Francisco medical center, her daughter, Dr.

How old was Patricia Bath when she died?

76 years (1942–2019)
Patricia Bath/Age at death

Death. Bath died on May 30, 2019, at a University of California, San Francisco medical center from cancer-related complications, aged 76.

Did a black woman invented laser eye surgery?

Patricia Bath was the first African American to complete a residency in ophthalmology and the first African American female doctor to receive a medical patent. She invented the Laserphaco Probe for cataract treatment in 1986.

What did Dr Bath create?

Laserphaco
Patricia Bath/Inventions
Dr. Patricia Bath discovered and invented a new device and technique for cataract surgery known as laserphaco. Dr. Bath was the first woman to chair an ophthalmology residency program in the United States.

Who was Patricia Bath and what was her background?

New York. Biography. Medical scientist Patricia E. Bath was born on November 4, 1942 in Harlem, New York. Bath’s father, Rupert, was a Trinidadian immigrant and the first black motorman in the New York City subway system; her mother, Gladys, was a descendant of African slaves and Cherokee Native Americans and worked as a housewife and domestic.

When did Patricia Bath retire from UCLA Medical Center?

Bath’s contributions changed the field of ophthalmology. In 1993, Bath retired from UCLA Medical Center but continued to advocate for fighting blindness. In 2001, she was inducted into the International Women in Medicine Hall of Fame. Dr. Bath was married to Dr. Beny J. Primm.

Where did Patricia Bath work as an intern?

While a young intern at Harlem Hospital and Columbia University, Bath noticed the contrast between the eye clinic of Harlem where half of the patients were visually impaired or blind and Columbia, where only a few patients suffered from blindness.

When did Patricia Bath graduate from Howard University?

Patricia E. Bath was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on November 29, 2012. I neglected to ask you about 1968 at, at Howard [Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, D.C.]. Now were you on, you were, I guess, on the verge of graduation when Dr. King [Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.] was killed, right?