How Did Patricia Bath Influence Society
Ben Wolf
Mrs. Husband
Spanish 10-1
10 February 2018
Patricia Bath
Though out history there has been very influential African American’s such as Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, and Rosa Parks. But the one I'm going to be talking about today isn't as well known as the ones I just mentioned, but she is still a very important influence to today's society as well as many African Americans. The person that I'm going to be talking about today is Patricia Bath the first African American female to finish her study in ophthalmology and was the first African American female doctor to receive a medical patient.
Patricia was born in Harlem, New York on November 4th in 1942 to her mother Gladys Bath and father Rupert Bath. Both of her parents told her told her to work hard, get an education and to …show more content…
always follow her dreams no matter what. For most of her young life Patricia lived her life in poverty, despite this she attended a public school. Patricia instantly fell in love with Medicine and Reading which was started when her mother brought her a chemistry set. At a young age she was shown to be extremely well versed in science and won many awards for science when she was in high school. She even became the editor of the science newspaper when she attended Charles Evan Hughes High School.
Patricia’s life got a lot more interesting when she was invited to spend summer studying medicine at the Yeshiva Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
At the college she managed to find an equation that was able to foresee the growth of cancer in the body. With this amazing discovery she made at only the age of sixteen was one of the youngest people at the time to awarded with a Merit Award from Mademoiselle Magazine in …show more content…
1960.
She then managed to finish high school in only two and a half years and shortly after she graduated she started to attend Hunter College and later went on to study medicine at Howard University School of Medicine after she graduated from Hunter. Which at the time it was almost unheard of for an African American let alone a African American woman to go college and graduate college.
After she finished studying at Howard University School of Medicine she returned back home to Harlem where she took up an internship at Harlem Hospital Medical Center. A year later she began to pursue a career in ophthalmology at Columbia university. While she was there at Columbia university she made a groundbreaking discovery that most of the African Americans patients that she was taking care of at the time had a higher chance of suffering from blindness than other patients she took care of. As well as the fact that African Americans had a much higher chance of developing glaucoma than any other race. This also lead to her creating a system called the community ophthalmology system which was a system designed to help people who couldn't afford the treatment for eye care. In 1973 Patricia became the first African American women to complete training in ophthalmology.
Patricia helped co-found the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness in 1973 with two men named Aaron Ifekwunigwe and J.Alfred Cannon.
The institution went by the motto that "eyesight is a basic human right." In 1983 Patricia helped create the Ophthalmology Residency Training program at UCLA-Drew. The Ophthalmology Residency Training program is a training program that includes training in clinical and surgical as well as training in almost all comprehensive parts in ophthalmology. She was also appointed as one of the chairmen at the Ophthalmology Residency Training program which made her one of the first woman to or the first woman in the nation to have this
position.
In 1981 Patricia worked on her most known invention the called the Laserphaco Probe. The Laserphaco Probe was a Device that was made to create a less painful and more precise treatment of cataracts. In 1988 she received a patient who needed treatment from Laserphaco Probe which allowed her to become the first female African American doctor to receive a patent.
In 1993 Patricia retired from her position of chairman at the Ophthalmology Residency Training program became a titular member of it’s medical staff.
Mrs. Husband
Spanish 10-1
10 February 2018
Patricia Bath
Though out history there has been very influential African American’s such as Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, and Rosa Parks. But the one I'm going to be talking about today isn't as well known as the ones I just mentioned, but she is still a very important influence to today's society as well as many African Americans. The person that I'm going to be talking about today is Patricia Bath the first African American female to finish her study in ophthalmology and was the first African American female doctor to receive a medical patient.
Patricia was born in Harlem, New York on November 4th in 1942 to her mother Gladys Bath and father Rupert Bath. Both of her parents told her told her to work hard, get an education and to …show more content…
always follow her dreams no matter what. For most of her young life Patricia lived her life in poverty, despite this she attended a public school. Patricia instantly fell in love with Medicine and Reading which was started when her mother brought her a chemistry set. At a young age she was shown to be extremely well versed in science and won many awards for science when she was in high school. She even became the editor of the science newspaper when she attended Charles Evan Hughes High School.
Patricia’s life got a lot more interesting when she was invited to spend summer studying medicine at the Yeshiva Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
At the college she managed to find an equation that was able to foresee the growth of cancer in the body. With this amazing discovery she made at only the age of sixteen was one of the youngest people at the time to awarded with a Merit Award from Mademoiselle Magazine in …show more content…
1960.
She then managed to finish high school in only two and a half years and shortly after she graduated she started to attend Hunter College and later went on to study medicine at Howard University School of Medicine after she graduated from Hunter. Which at the time it was almost unheard of for an African American let alone a African American woman to go college and graduate college.
After she finished studying at Howard University School of Medicine she returned back home to Harlem where she took up an internship at Harlem Hospital Medical Center. A year later she began to pursue a career in ophthalmology at Columbia university. While she was there at Columbia university she made a groundbreaking discovery that most of the African Americans patients that she was taking care of at the time had a higher chance of suffering from blindness than other patients she took care of. As well as the fact that African Americans had a much higher chance of developing glaucoma than any other race. This also lead to her creating a system called the community ophthalmology system which was a system designed to help people who couldn't afford the treatment for eye care. In 1973 Patricia became the first African American women to complete training in ophthalmology.
Patricia helped co-found the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness in 1973 with two men named Aaron Ifekwunigwe and J.Alfred Cannon.
The institution went by the motto that "eyesight is a basic human right." In 1983 Patricia helped create the Ophthalmology Residency Training program at UCLA-Drew. The Ophthalmology Residency Training program is a training program that includes training in clinical and surgical as well as training in almost all comprehensive parts in ophthalmology. She was also appointed as one of the chairmen at the Ophthalmology Residency Training program which made her one of the first woman to or the first woman in the nation to have this
position.
In 1981 Patricia worked on her most known invention the called the Laserphaco Probe. The Laserphaco Probe was a Device that was made to create a less painful and more precise treatment of cataracts. In 1988 she received a patient who needed treatment from Laserphaco Probe which allowed her to become the first female African American doctor to receive a patent.
In 1993 Patricia retired from her position of chairman at the Ophthalmology Residency Training program became a titular member of it’s medical staff.