Midwives in the News
Dr. Mary Ann Faucher named Fellow of ACNM
Mary Ann Faucher earned master's degrees in nurse-midwifery and public health from Columbia University and a PhD in 2002 from Texas Women's University. Dr. Faucher has been teaching midwifery education for more than 20 years with a long tenure teaching in the Parkland certificate program in Dallas and as one of the original faculty in the pioneering CNEP distance education program. Now, an Associate Professor at Baylor University, she directs the nurse-midwifery-DNP, the first U.S. program to graduate the BSN to DNP midwife. MaryAnn also is active in clinical practice.
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As chair of the Political and Economic Affairs Committee from 1987-1990, she led the drive for obtaining prescriptive authority and co-presented the ACNM regional education workshops on Pharmacology. She chaired ACNM's Nominating Committee and is the immediate past chair of DOME (Directors of Midwifery Education). Dr. Faucher has served as Associate Editor of JMWH since 2004, has been guest editor of two themed issues on pharmacology and has been a series editor for JOGNN. She currently chairs an ad hoc group monitoring the national LACE initiative, and recently completed work on a task force to develop midwifery specific doctoral competencies. Mary Ann has been awarded ACNM's Teaching Excellence Award and the Region V Award of Excellence in 2000. Her contributions extend to other agencies including chairing an expert advisory panel that developed evidence-based guidelines on cardiovascular health in women for AWHONN. Dr. Faucher publishes regularly. Her research focuses on behavioral interventions for obesity, weight loss and gestational weight gain. |
