Anne Cockerham, PhD, CNM, WHNP-BC, CNE, FACNM
Dr. Anne Z. Cockerham has served on the faculty at FNU since May 2009. She is currently Course Coordinator of NM702 Care During Normal Pregnancy. Previously she was the Director of the Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (2016-2018), Associate Dean of Academic Affairs (2015-2018), and Associate Dean of Midwifery and Women’s Health (2014-2015).
Dr. Cockerham is the author of two award-winning books that celebrate the history of the Frontier Nursing Service: Rooted in the Mountains, Reaching to the World: Stories of Nursing and Midwifery at Kentucky’s Frontier School, 1939-1989, published in 2012, and Unbridled Service: Growing Up and Giving Back as a Frontier Nursing Service Courier, 1928-2010, published in 2014.
Her clinical midwifery experience includes full-scope care in a private, midwifery-owned practice and a military setting; outpatient-only care in a number of collaborative practices; and care of underserved women in a community free clinic.
Dr. Cockerham earned a BSN from the University of Virginia, MSN from Case Western Reserve University, and certificates in nurse-midwifery and women’s health nurse practitioner from the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing. She earned a PhD in Nursing from the University of Virginia.
She is a Fellow of the American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) and received ACNM’s Excellence in Teaching Award (2021). She is a three-time recipient of the FNU Student Choice Award for Teaching Excellence.