Dr. Jay-Sheree Allen is a Board-Certified Family Medicine Physician who is committed to improving the health of millennials, both locally and globally, through the promotion and practice of Primary Care and Preventive Medicine. Recognizing the power of media to deliver relevant and timely health messages, she has published with ABC News Health, she is a contributor on Hippo Education’s Primary Care Reviews and Perspectives podcast and co-host of the new series Race and Medicine. She is also the creator and host of the Millennial Health Podcast.

Prior to her current role as a Family Physician in Southern Minnesota, she served as a National Health Service Corps Scholar in a critical access hospital in Central Minnesota. She completed her residency training at the Mayo Clinic. While there, she was a member of the Mayo Clinic Alumni Association Board of Directors, President of the Mayo Fellows Association and recipient of one of the Mayo Clinic’s highest student honors: The Barbara Bush Award. She graduated from Meharry Medical College in Nashville Tennessee where she was the recipient of the Family Medicine Leadership Award and served as Miss Meharry, the institution’s community ambassador. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Magna Cum Laude, from The City College of the City University of New York where she was a Colin Powell Fellow. 

She founded Women of Excellence, Strength & Tenacity (WEST) an organization dedicated to empowering young women to live up to their highest potential. She continues to support philanthropic efforts in medicine, through volunteering locally and abroad. She serves on the American Academy of Family Physicians Foundation Board of Trustees, the Center Clinic Board of Directors and is the West/Midwest Regional Leader for the Global Jamaica Diaspora Youth Council.

She was named a 40 under 40 Leader in Health by the National Minority Quality Forum, she was featured in the book Against All Odds: Celebrating Black Women in Medicine and most recently was awarded the 2020 Townsend Harris Medal by the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association of the City College of New York. 

Dr. Jay-Sheree Allen is Jamaican born and New York raised. She lives with her husband Dr. Joseph Akambase and daughter, Joy in Minnesota.