# Patricia Bath (@patricia-bath)

Patricia Bath was a ophthalmologist, inventor and health-equity advocate. Bath combined public health, screening and clinical eye care to address preventable blindness in underserved communities.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Patricia Bath's public record._

## Topics

- [Institutional Firsts](/@patricia-bath/institutional-firsts.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Community Ophthalmology](/@patricia-bath/community-ophthalmology.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Laserphaco](/@patricia-bath/laserphaco.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/changing-the-face-of-medicine/physicians/biography_patricia-bath.html
- blog: https://invention.si.edu/invention-stories/innovative-lives-dr-patricia-bath
- blog: https://www.uspto.gov/learning-and-resources/journeys-innovation/historical-stories/patricia-bath

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "patricia-bath", "question": "…"}`.