Tara is a doctor of nursing practice and a certified registered nurse practitioner who specializes in palliative medicine and supportive care. Her clinical interests include advanced heart failure and cardiogenic shock.

Tara earned a Bachelor of Science in nursing from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, and a Bachelor of Arts in zoology and genetics from Miami University of Ohio in Oxford, Ohio.

She went on to earn a Doctorate of Nursing Practice at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, Georgia, and a Master of Science in nursing at the University of Cincinnati, in Ohio.

She is a member of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses, the American Association of Nurse Practitioners, the American Nurses Association, and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association.