Bay Pines VA Medical Center, St. Petersburg, FL

    Dr. Kaley M. Tash, M.D., has been named Chief of Medicine at the Bay Pines VA Medical Center. She oversees various medical specialty practices of 200 physicians and other medical professionals, serving military veterans from St. Petersburg to Fort Myers and east to Sebring.

    Dr. Tash graduated from Harvard Medical School in 2011, completed her residency in internal medicine at Duke University and earned a fellowship in infectious diseases at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, where she is an associate professor.

    A native of St. Petersburg, Dr. Tash graduated from St. Petersburg High School. She is married to Dr. Michael Shafique, an oncologist and the medical director of Moffitt Cancer Center’s clinic at International Plaza. They have 9-year-old twins.