Andrea Davis, FNP
Andrea Davis, FNP, is a Family Nurse Practitioner and Co-Medical Director at the Community-University Health Care Center (CUHCC) in collaboration with the University of Minnesota. She has been a Family Nurse Practitioner since 2017 and began her current role in Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 2, 2018. With over 15 years of nursing experience, she earned her Master of Science in Nursing from Minnesota State University, Mankato, building a strong foundation in primary care and advanced clinical practice. Andrea provides comprehensive primary care across the lifespan, seeing approximately 20–22 patients per day in a standard 10-hour clinical schedule. Her practice includes care for patients from infancy through end of life, with a strong focus on underserved populations. She serves a highly diverse community, including uninsured and underinsured individuals, immigrants, patients experiencing chemical dependency, and those seeking routine primary care. In addition to her primary care work, she leads a weekly 5 hour walk-in clinic where she manages acute and complex conditions such as infections, uncontrolled chronic disease, and behavioral health concerns including anxiety, depression, and bipolar disorder. In 2022, Andrea was appointed Co-Medical Director, where she oversees nurse practitioners and collaborates with an MD co-director to manage interdisciplinary provider teams. In this leadership role, she helps guide clinical education for learners from across the University of Minnesota system, including medical residents, pharmacy, psychiatry, med-peds, internal medicine trainees, as well as nurse practitioners, social work, dental, and pharmacy students. She leads quality improvement initiatives, develops clinic-wide trainings, and supports interprofessional collaboration across disciplines. She is X-waivered and has provided medication-assisted treatment for opioid use disorder for the last six to seven years. Deeply committed to health equity and integrated care, she is actively involved in expanding clinical capacity and strengthening interprofessional partnerships to improve outcomes for high-need populations.
• Minnesota State University, in Mankato - BS in Community Health and Biology
• Minnesota State University in Mankato - BSN
• Master's in Nurse Practice, NSO State University Mankato
• X500 Waiver Certification for Medication-Assisted Treatment
• Certified Family Nurse Practitioner
• American Academy of Nurse Practitioners
Areas of Specialization/Expertise
- Underserved Populations
- Chemical Dependency
- Mental Health
- Infectious Disease
- Chronic Disease Management
- Diabetes
- Hypertension
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Opioid Use Disorder Treatment
- Primary Care
What do you enjoy most about practicing medicine?
I love the patients that I work with, I love the staff that I work with, and I love developing relationships with patients so that when they come in and see me, they know who I am, I know who they are, and they can feel comfortable to be their authentic selves during their time with me. They know and they trust me, and they consistently will come and ask for feedback from me versus jumping to other different providers, because the relationship we have established. I always wanted to help people and support people in achieving their health goals, especially when their are significant barriers to access to care. I've always wanted to help people and I was driven to become a Nurse Practitioner because I wanted to have the knowledge and tools to be able to support people achieve their healthcare goals. Providing patients with tools to guide them through whatever life issue they happen to be facing. Whether that be end of life or when a child just entering the world and taking on life, growing as little kiddos, or through the many phases that we navigate as adults. Working in hospital medicine drove me to want to work in primary care, in community health, to be able to support those most vulnerable so they can manage their chronic health conditions, prevent hospitalization, and prevent those acute episodes from ever developing as best as they can. Working in a community clinic is never boring. I'm always busy. There's always something new to learn. There's never a day that goes by where I'm like "I don't know what to do with myself". There's always something exciting, something new on the horizon, with the patients that I work with, with the other staff that I work with, with the institution that I work with.