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Did You Know These 15 Trailblazers Are Non-Honorary Members Of Alpha Kappa Alpha?
DR. PATRICIA BATH – A Harlem native, Bath received her Bachelor of Arts in chemistry from Manhattan’s Hunter College and went on to attend the Howard University College of Medicine.
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The first African-American woman doctor to receive a patent for a medical purpose, she owns four patents and also founded the American Institute for the Prevention of Blindness in Washington, D.C. She was the first African-American Resident in Ophthalmology at New York University and the first African-American woman to have ever served on staff as a surgeon at the UCLA Medical Center.
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