Kate Fouquier, PhD, RN, CNM

Assistant Professor of Nursing View CV   Contact Phone: (601) 984-6254 Fax: (601) 984-6214 E-mail: mfouquier@umc.edu Office: Jackson campus

Biography

Dr. Kate Fouquier joined the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Nursing faculty in 2011, following the completion of a one-year post-doctoral research fellowship at Georgia State University. She earned her Ph.D. in nursing from Georgia State University, an MSN from Case Western Reserve University, a BHA from the University of Kentucky and an associate degree in nursing from Nicholls State University. After being awarded the National Health Services Scholarship Award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Sciences, in 1996, she also earned her certificate in midwifery from Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing and then served two years in an underserved community as a certified-nurse midwife (CNM).

An active member of Sigma Theta Tau International and the American College of Nurse-Midwives, where she served as chair of the National Program Committee from 2004 to 2010, she also served on the board of Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies of Georgia and the Georgia Perinatal Mortality Committee. She was an active member of the Georgia Nurses Association and the United Advanced Practice Registered Nurses of Georgia.

Research overview

Dr. Fouquier's program of research has been in psychosocial adaptations in pregnancy and birth; maternal-infant attachment; and health-care disparities in maternal nursing. Her dissertation was entitled "INVISIBLE MOTHERHOOD: A Heideggerian Hermeneutical Analysis of Motherhood Among Three Generations of African American Women." In 2008, she was awarded the Maymi Walker Chandler Award in recognition of her commitment to the professional development of women.

She currently is working on a pilot study titled "The Association of Anxiety Sensitivity, Pregnancy Related Anxiety and Fear of Childbirth on Perinatal Experiences in African-American Women."