Executive Biographies | Colorado

Jandel Allen-Davis, MD

Vice president, Government and External Relations

Jandel Allen-Davis, MD, is vice president of Government and External Relations for Kaiser Permanente Colorado. In this role she has responsibility for Kaiser Permanente’s relationships in the community at large, the business community, and local and state government. She leads the organization’s public relations and communications functions, government relations and community benefit investment.

Dr. Allen-Davis is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and after 25 years of taking care of patients, transitioned from a physician leader to Kaiser Permanente’s Health Plan Leadership team. 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. Dr. Allen-Davis 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 coming to work at Kaiser Permanente, 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, Ariz., during which 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 believes health care will improve when all the primary stakeholder groups — clinicians, patients, elected officials, community leaders, and employers — can collaborate effectively to put the patient at the center. “My vision is for Kaiser Permanente to be everyone’s most valuable partner in health. We want to support dialogue and collaboration to help our patients, our people, and Colorado thrive,” she said.

Dr. Allen-Davis is an active participant on community boards. She is a member of the CU Foundation Board of Directors, the Center for Women’s Health Research Board of Directors, Colorado Association of Health Plans Board of Directors, Colorado Association of Commerce and Industry Board of Directors, Colorado Competitive Council Investor Committee, Colorado Succeeds Board of Directors, Denver Botanic Gardens Board of Trustees, Denver Foundation Board of Trustees, Grantmakers in Health Board of Directors, and is president of the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation Board of Directors. Dr. Allen-Davis served as president of the Colorado State Board of Medical Examiners from 2009 to 2011. She was a member of the Provider Advisory Task Force of the 2008 Blue Ribbon Commission on Health Care Reform and served as co-chair of the Colorado Medical Society Physician’s Congress on Health Care Reform.

Dr. Allen-Davis is the proud recipient of the 2006 Shades of Genius Award for Community Service and Mentoring Minority Students, from Metropolitan State College of Denver, the 2000 R.J. Erickson Diversity Champion Award by Kaiser Permanente and the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts. She was named 2000 Kaiser Permanente Physician Volunteer of the Year and a “Top Doc” by 5280 Magazine for several years. In 2002, Dr. Allen-Davis won First Place in the Professional Category of the “On My Own Time” Art Show from the Colorado Business Committee for the Arts.

In her spare time, Dr. Allen-Davis is a fiber artist who creates original hand painted quilts. In addition, she enjoys staying active and recently completed the Kaiser Permanente Colfax half-marathon in May 2011. Dr. Allen-Davis is married to her college sweetheart, Anthony, and they have two children, Courtney and Jonathon.

1/23/2012