Ms. Allen, NCMIC professional relations representative, received her BSN in nursing from Grandview College and her Master's Degree in Nursing Education and Administration from Drake University. Prior to joining NCMIC, Ms. Allen was a medical fraud analyst supervisor for Unisys Corporation, head nurse/outreach coordinator/educator at Iowa Methodist Medical Center, and emergency department R.N. Her specialties included care of the psychiatric and emergency room patient. She has conceived, planned, and presented workshops nationally on health care fraud and care of chronically ill patients and given hundreds of other presentations throughout the U.S. Ms. Allen is an adjunct professor for post graduate education at National University of Health Sciences and an adjunct assistant professor to the postgraduate and continuing education faculty of the New York Chiropractic College.