Elizabeth Bass

Mary Elizabeth Bass (April 5, 1876 – January 26, 1956) was an American physician, educator and suffragist.

[5] The Era Club helped influence the decision to allow women to enroll in Tulane University as medical students in 1914.

[6] In 1911, Bass and another physician, Edith Ballard, became the first women faculty members of the Tulane University school of medicine.

[7] Bass was honored by the American Medical Women's Association with the Elizabeth Blackwell Centennial Medal Award in 1953.

[7] She also collected the manuscripts, papers, pictures, letters, press clippings and other ephemera created by women physicians.

[7] Bass wrote essays and histories based on her collection which now resides at the Matas Medical Library.