Dr. Couillard is a nationally certified family nurse practitioner with thirty years of practice and teaching experience at Health Science Centers in Detroit, Rochester, Syracuse and Clemson. She earned her doctoral degree in nursing from the University of Rochester in 1989.

Among her other accomplishments are the University of Rochester Excellence in Nursing Practice award, a Robert Wood Johnson Faculty Fellowship, Trained Herb Specialist certification and Who’s Who in Education recipient.

Dr. Couillard has presented and published nationally on topics of wellness and prevention. She was awarded numerous grants for practice and research programs to improve health care for vulnerable groups, ie., pregnant teens, disabled women, poor children etc. Since 2003, Dr. Couillard has limited her practice to complementary and alternative health and is President of Ginkgo Garden, Inc.