Todd Allen, MBA, MMS, PA-C, has been a practicing PA since 2012. He graduated from the Midwestern University PA program in Glendale, AZ. His entire PA career has been focused on psychiatry, working in hospitals, corrections facilities, outpatient settings, and in addiction medicine.
Prior to becoming a PA, Allen had backgrounds in marketing, banking and real estate. He graduated in 2004 from Northwest Nazarene University, Nampa, ID, with a Bachelor of Science and attained his Master of Business Administration degree the following year from the same university.
After going through the housing downturn in 2008/2009, he decided that he needed to try to find something that was going to be more recession proof than real estate and so he decided to go back to school to become a PA. Allen became interested in psychiatry while taking prerequisite classes to enter his PA program. After an abnormal psychiatry class, his interest in the field was thoroughly piqued. When his preceptor for his mental health rotation asked him about taking a position at the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare after graduating from his PA program, Todd’s fate in mental health care was cemented. He has worked at the Department since 2012 and still holds a position there today. Also in 2012, Allen worked in urgent care at the Blackfoot Medical Center until 2014. From 2014 until 2023, he worked at the Pocatello Women’s Correctional Center. He has been fortunate enough to be able to provide outpatient mental health care since 2017 as well.
During the time that he has worked for the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, Allen has developed a love for working with people with severe mental illness. He feels a great sense of accomplishment and job satisfaction as he is able to work with people that present in a severely decompensated state and then working with them until they are able to discharge like a different person. He recognizes that there is a huge need for mental health care in the country and he does what he can to help fill some of that void. While he didn’t think that he was going to be working in mental health, he truly feels that he has found his calling in medicine.
Allen’s work as a PA has earned him numerous recognitions and distinctions, such as being named PA of the Year in 2017 from the Idaho Academy of PAs. He was also named as the Idaho State University PA preceptor of the year in 2025. While he has been a preceptor for PA programs across the country, most recently, he has been taking numerous students from the Idaho State University, Midwestern University and Rocky Mountain University PA programs for the past several years. He has really enjoyed precepting and teaching students about mental health for the past 10 years.
Allen served on the board of the nccPA Health Foundation (nccPA HF) and was chair of the organization (2021-2022). He is also a former chair of the nccPA HF’s Partners in Mental Health Steering Committee. He has been a huge proponent for raising awareness about mental health and his time serving on the nccPA HF board, as well as serving as chair of the Mental Health Steering Committee, has allowed him to continue to be instrumental in making mental health more of a focus in the PA profession.
Allen has been married to his wife, Jodi, for 28 years and they have three boys, along with another son that he had before he and Jodi married. He has been active in their lives and he was able to coach them all in different sports including football and baseball. He has three grandchildren and he enjoys being able to spoil them as often as possible. In his free time, he enjoys being outdoors. He rides snowmobiles with his boys in the winter and during the summer, he enjoys spending time camping, fishing and taking side by side rides with the family. He enjoys hunting and fishing and is the happiest when he is able to get outdoors in nature.
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This biography was prepared by PA History Society staff with the assistance of Todd Allen. It was submitted to the Society in October 2026. The photographs are courtesy of Mr. Allen.
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