Melissa Davis   DNP, CNM, FNP-BC, FACNM, C-EFM

Bio

Professor Melissa Davis joined the VUSN faculty in January, 2006. She has varied clinical experience including private primary care practice, urgent care, and full-scope midwifery care. Her current interests include hypertension and stroke in pregnancy, vaginal birth after cesarean, chorioamnionitis infection rates, obesity, and newborn care. 

She is a clinical instructor and teaches in the Master's level Nurse-Midwifery and Family-Nurse Practitioner Specialties. 

She currently works as the Clinical Practice Director for the faculty practice at West End Women's Health Center and Vanderbilt Midwives & Primary Care at Melrose. She practices full-scope midwifery at the clinics and Vanderbilt Medical Center. She also provides urgent care as a family nurse practitioner at the Vanderbilt Walk-In Clinics on an as-needed basis. 

Melissa completed her MSN at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing and her Doctor or Nursing Practice degree at Samford University in Birmingham, AL.