David Gregorievich Bushmich (March 27, 1902 - 1995; pronounced Gregor-eh-vitch Bush-mitch) was a Soviet-Ukrainian ophthalmologist who invented the layered cornea transplantation technique.

He graduated from Odessa State Medical University in 1925 and worked there until 1929 in the ward of eye diseases under the direction of Vladimir Filatov.

During World War II, from 1941 to 1944, he worked at evacuation-hospitals, where he saved the sight of thousands of wounded soldiers.

In 1937, he defended the candidate dissertation on the topic of "Determination of localized changes within the eye depth", and in 1958, after multiple attempts to overcome antisemitism, particularly having complications related to the Doctors' plot, he defended a doctorate dissertation titled Clinical Partial Transplantation of the Cornea.

[2] Bushmich's main professional interests revolved around the restoration of eyesight for patients with leukoma (a dense white opacity in the cornea of the eye) and its etiology (origin).