Martha Tracy (April 10, 1876 – March 22, 1942)[1] served as dean of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania (WMCP) from 1917 to 1940, leading the institution through the Great Depression.

[1] She attended the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, taking classes with chemistry professor Henry Leffmann among others.

[2]: 138 In 1917, Martha Tracy was selected as the seventh dean of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania,[14] succeeding Clara Marshall.

During her time as dean, Tracy expanded the department's offerings in social medicine, envisioning a program that would address the broad range of topics "which especially claim the attention of women physicians.

[2]: 138–139  Tracy created a four-year curriculum in preventive medicine that included field trips to factories, sewage plants, and water works.

Tracy was not afraid to support controversial issues as thesis topics, such as a student's choice of "medical services in the Soviet Union," during a period when there was much suspicion in the United States about communism.

[2]: 138 In response to the Great Depression, former graduates, faculty, and trustees of the medical college carried out a successful emergency fundraising campaign.

[5] After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Tracy began to organize Civilian Defense Squads throughout the city as the United States prepared for war.