William “Randy”Allen, MD, has been elected to head the medical staff at Pattie A. Clay Regional Medical Center.

     Dr. Allen is a graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine and completed his internship and residency at the Medical University Hospital at Charleston, South Carolina. In 1979 he moved to Richmond to set up a private practice in urology.

     Dr. Allen is a retired colonel from the United States Army medical corps, having served for 20 years.  He was commander of the 810^th Convalescent Center and commander of the 4208^th US Army Reserve Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.  He was activated for Desert Storm and served with the Alabama National Guard in Saudi Arabia in 1991.

     In addition to being a physician, he has been involved in several business endeavors. He is a founding member and current board member of Madison Bank; he developed Cross Creek Estates subdivision with three other business men in Richmond and initiated the Instant Care Center with two other physicians.  

     He and his wife, Pat, have been married 38 years and have three children.  They include a dentist, a software developer and a physical therapist.

     In his spare time he enjoys golf, scuba diving and flying small aircraft; but his favorite pastime is babysitting his grandson.