An undergraduate of Stanford University, Dr. Allen received her medical degree from the University of California at San Francisco. Dr. Allen completed her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Utah and her fellowship in Hematology/Oncology at the University of Arizona.

Dr. Allen is a past president of the Nevada State Medical Association and the Clark County Medical Society. Having held numerous state and national positions, she currently is Medical Director of the Hemophilia Treatment Center of Las Vegas, Chairman of Nevada Humanities and Chairman of Blood Systems, Inc., the national, not-for-profit blood bank. She is also a member of the American College of Physicians and serves on the board of directors of the Audio Digest Foundation.

Dr. Allen has been in private practice as a medical oncologist since 1981 and with Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada since 1997. She is married and has one daughter.