Tara Spell, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

School of Medicine
Department
Medicine General Internal Medicine Geriatrics
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Education & Affiliations

MD, Medical College of Georgia, 2014
Internal Medicine Residency, University of Florida, 2017

Biography

Dr. Tara Spell was born and raised in a rural area in South Georgia where she spent her childhood. She pursued a degree in biology at the University of Georgia in Athens and graduated magna cum laude in 2010. She studied medicine at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta and graduated in 2014. After leaving Augusta, she spent the next three years at the University of Florida Shands in Gainesville, where she completed her residency in Internal Medicine in 2017. She returned to Georgia to become a hospitalist in Macon at the Medical Center of Central Georgia. She then joined Tulane University’s School of Medicine Section of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics as an academic hospitalist at Tulane Medical Center and University Medical Center of New Orleans in 2022.