Dr. Arthur Fournier

Dr. Fournier attended Merrimack College and Tufts Medical School. After completing residency training at hospitals affiliated with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in 1976, he served as a commissioned officer in the US Public Health Service on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Dr. Fournier’s academic career at the Miller School of Medicine began in 1978. He is currently a professor emeritus, having served as a professor of family medicine and internal medicine as well as associate dean for community health. Dr. Fournier taught that every year level at the Miller School of Medicine, as well as teaching residents from training programs in both family medicine and internal medicine. His pioneered innovative primary-care education models that bring preventive and primary health care to under served communities both in South Florida and in Haiti. These innovations include health fairs and model teaching clinics serving minorities, inner-city schoolchildren, the homeless, migrant farmworkers and immigrants.

In 1994, he, along with Dr. Barth Green, founded Project Medishare, a nongovernmental organization dedicated to improving health in Haiti. Since then, he has made over 150 trips to Haiti, supervising medical student volunteers and providing direct patient care. In 1998 he received a grant from the Open Society Institute to establish a family medicine residency training program for Haitian physicians. Dr. Fournier was among the first to treat patients with AIDS and to recognize the socio- economic forces driving that epidemic. He writes to support his work in Haiti. His first book, The Zombie Curse, recounts a quarter-century battle against AIDS in Miami and in Haiti. His second book, Vodou Saints, is the second of a planned trilogy of books based upon his experiences in Haiti. All proceeds of his writings are donated to support HealthShare Global.