Dr. Fouquier is a professor of nursing and concentration coordinator of the Doctor of Nurse Practice Nurse Midwifery specialty tract in the UTHSC College of Nursing with over 44 years of experience delivering interprofessional primary healthcare to adolescent, minority populations, including African Americans. Dr. Fouquier has an extensive background in leadership, management, program development and implementation and education. In 2012, she completed the UMMC Leadership Development Program, a one-year, comprehensive interprofessional leadership training designed to foster a collaborative atmosphere to promote excellence in leadership within the context of interprofessional collaboration. 

Dr. Fouquier’s clinical and research interests have focused on the concept of motherhood, health disparities in women’s health, adolescent health, and trauma-informed care. Her dissertation was entitled “INVISIBLE MOTHERHOOD:  A Heideggerian Hermeneutical Analysis of Motherhood Among Three Generations of African American Women.” In 2008, Dr. Fouquier was awarded the Maymi Walker Chandler Award in recognition of her commitment to the professional development of women.

In 2017, she was awarded a $1.3M HRSA Nurse Education, Practice, Quality and Retention-Interprofessional Collaborative Practice grant and has also received funding from the Women’s Foundation of Mississippi, Teen Health Mississippi and the Mississippi State Department of Health Title X to support the development and implementation of a primary and preventive health school based clinic located in a low-income inner city high school in Jackson, Mississippi. 

As an advocate for women’s health and normal birth, Dr. Fouquier is a member and a Fellow of the American College of Nurse Midwives and the Tennessee Nursing Association. Prior to relocating to Tennessee, she served on the Mississippi Perinatal Quality Collaborative (MSPQC), the Mississippi Maternal Mortality Review Committee and Governor Phil Bryant’s Blue Ribbon Task Force: Healthy Teens for a Better Mississippi. She has several publications in nursing journals and regularly presents her work at local, regional and national conferences.