Dr. Tara Hulsey is Dean and Professor in the Derry Patterson Wingo School of Nursing at Charleston Southern University and Adjunct Faculty in the Colleges of Nursing and Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. She received her bachelor of science in nursing from Clemson University, her master of science in maternal/child nursing from the Medical University of South Carolina, and her Doctor of Science in Nursing from the University of South Carolina. Her specialty area is high-risk obstetrics. Dr. Hulsey is also a Certified Nurse Educator and teaches at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. She has developed nursing courses and graduate nursing programs for several universities.

She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau and is the past-president of the Gamma Omicron at-Large Chapter. She served two terms as the Region 7 Coordinator for Sigma Theta Tau International. Dr. Hulsey has held numerous leadership positions in the area of perinatal nursing, serving on the Board of Directors for the South Carolina Perinatal Association, the Regional Perinatal Association, and the National Perinatal Association. She served five years as chair of the research committee of the National Perinatal Association and is past chair of the National Perinatal State Forum.

Dr. Hulsey is a Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Executive Nurse Fellow and is project director of the RWJ funded Quality and Safety Education in Nursing initiative, in which the Derry Patterson Wingo School of Nursing is one of 15 pilot schools in the country. She has received over 1 million dollars in funded research and project grants and has published in the areas of unwanted pregnancy, infant mortality, low birth weight, and maternal pregnancy behaviors. Dr. Hulsey has presented at local, regional, national, and international levels.