Marvel King Davis, RN, MSN

Marvel King Davis is a clinical nurse specialist in psychiatry. She is service manager for dual diagnosis at Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital. She has been working with Yale-New Haven since 1989. In 1987, she worked as a psychiatric reviewer for Aetna. In the early years of her career, she was the head nurse of the Day Hospital at the Connecticut Mental Health Center and staff nurse at the Yale Psychiatric Institute.

A lifelong learner, Ms. Davis received a teaching certificate from the Yale University/New Haven Teachers Institute, enabling her to become a family life educator at Hillhouse High School in New Haven. She served as director of the summer Infant/Toddler Program for the New Haven Public School Family Life Program and was a board member of Planned Parenthood of New Haven. She currently serves as president of the board of directors of Dixwell Newhallville Community Mental Health Services.

In 2000, Ms. Davis received a Distinguished Alumna Citation from the Yale School of Nursing. She is an active member of the National Black Nurses Association, and in 2001 was named the organization's historian. She is a past president of the Southern Connecticut Black Nurses Association.

Ms. Davis holds an MSN in psychiatric nursing from the Yale School of Nursing and a BSN from Seton Hall University. She was appointed by the Yale Council of Masters to be a fellow of Calhoun College, and she served on the board of governors of the Association of Yale Alumni. A New Haven resident, she and her husband, Reid Davis, have three sons.

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