Bio
Dr. Tamina McMillan serves as the Medical Director of Pediatric Primary Care at the Mississippi Center for Advanced Medicine. Born in South Korea and raised in Virginia, she is a graduate of Hollins University in Roanoke, VA. She then completed medical school at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, TN, which was the first medical school in the South for African Americans and currently one of the top medical schools in the country for physicians who want to practice primary care. After finishing medical school Dr. McMillan completed her pediatric residency at the University of Nevada Las Vegas.
Dr. McMillan has a passion for pediatric primary care and underserved children and has worked at two Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) prior to joining MCAM. At Nevada Health Centers, she built the pediatric department from the ground up to encompass multiple clinicians in a range of settings to include outpatient pediatric care, school-based care and a mobile medical unit. Dr. McMillan is also fluent in Spanish and looks forward to providing outstanding evaluation and treatment to all children and families that visit MCAM’s Pediatric Primary Care. Her personal passions include spending time with her husband and their four children, baking, cooking global cuisine, reading voraciously, practicing Spanish, lifting weights, writing and actively choosing joy in all that she does.
