Biography
Jandel Allen-Davis, MD was appointed to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City’s head office Board of Directors on January 1, 2023 and previously served on the Denver Branch Board of Directors since 2021. Dr. Allen-Davis is the president and chief executive officer of Craig Hospital in Englewood, Colorado, a world-renowned rehabilitation hospital that exclusively specializes in the neuro-rehabilitation and research of patients with spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries.
Dr. Allen Davis was the vice president of Government, External Relations and Research for Kaiser Permanente Colorado from 2009-2018. In that role she led the organization’s government relations and regulatory affairs, community relations and community benefit investment, clinical research activities, stakeholder engagement, communications, and advertising and marketing functions. Dr. Allen-Davis is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and was in active practice for 25 years. Her past roles at Kaiser Permanente included Associate Medical Director of External Relations for the Colorado Permanente Medical Group, Regional Director of Patient Safety and Physician Chief of the Wheat Ridge Medical Offices. She was elected to the Colorado Permanente Medical Group Board of Directors in 1998 and chaired the board in her final year.
A graduate of Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School, Dr. Allen-Davis completed her residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Before going to work at Kaiser Permanente in 1994 as a staff obstetrician gynecologist, she was an Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and spent four years in the Indian Health Service in Tuba City, Arizona. During this time she also served as member and chair of the American College of Obstetrician Gynecologists’ Committee on Alaska Native and Indian Affairs.
Dr. Allen-Davis is an active participant in the community and currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Dartmouth Geisel Medical School, AdvanceEDU, the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce, the Colorado Hospital Association, and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. She has been recognized as: a 5280 Magazine “Top Doc” in the Denver Metropolitan Area; by Modern Healthcare as one of 2020’s Minority Leaders to Watch in Healthcare; is a recipient of the MLK Business Award (2020); is a recipient of the 2020 Del Hock Lifetime Achievement Award and was awarded the Career Achievement Award from Dartmouth Geisel Medical School in 2021. In addition to other leadership awards she was named as an Outstanding Woman in Health Care by the Denver Business Journal. She is married and has two children. She enjoys gardening, hiking and is a fiber artist whose work has been displayed in several galleries over the years.
Learn more about Dr. Allen-Davis in TEN Magazine.