Christina Allen, MD, FAAOS, joined the
Yale Department of Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation as a professor and Sports Medicine Division Chief and Yale Head Team Physician on Nov. 1, 2020. In May 2023, Dr. Allen was appointed Vice Chair of Athletic Medicine and Community Outreach for the Yale Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, Division of Sports Medicine. She continues to serve as an orthopaedic surgeon for Yale Athletics.
Allen, a Connecticut native and renowned sports medicine surgeon specializing in complex knee and shoulder injuries, was named chief after working at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. In her role as vice chair, Allen will work to transform healthcare opportunities for those in competitive sports and further develop our athletic medicine services at Yale.
Allen, an avid soccer enthusiast and former collegiate athlete is an orthopaedic team physician for US Soccer and has traveled with both the US Women’s National Team and Men’s National Team for competitions in Russia, China, Brazil, Japan, Mexico, and Poland. She has also served as the head physician for the USA Taekwondo National Team at the 2012 Olympics in London and the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Her research has looked into failure mechanisms with single and multiple ACL revision surgeries, and she specializes in ACL revision, meniscus transplants, cartilage restoration, shoulder sports medicine injuries, and proximal hamstring repairs.
Allen is a biomedical engineer by training and earned her bachelor’s degree from Duke University. After graduation, she worked as Chief of Biomedical Engineering at the Veterans Affairs medical centers in Philadelphia and San Francisco before enrolling at UCLA School of Medicine. She completed both her residency in orthopaedic surgery and fellowship in Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh.
