Tara is a Specialist in Oral Surgery and completed dentistry at Guys (1984), OMFS Melbourne University (1991) and a neuroscience PhD at KCL (2003).

Tara established multi collaborative and disciplinary research teams with international repute in third molar surgery, patient safety, trigeminal nerve injury and orofacial pain evidenced by over 250 peer reviewed articles. She has established two patient facing websites www.trigeminalnerve.org.uk and www.orofacialpain.org.uk.