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Dr. Taylor earned his medical degree from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, and completed his internship and residency at the Medical College of Virginia in Richmond. He completed his pulmonary and critical care medicine fellowship at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina. Dr. Taylor is board certified in internal medicine and pulmonary disease and has been on staff at Ochsner since 2000. Dr. Taylor is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bronchogenic Cyst. His top areas of expertise are Acute Interstitial Pneumonia, Lung Metastases, Interstitial Lung Disease, and Systemic Sclerosis (SSc).

Jay Segarra is a Pulmonary Medicine provider in Gulfport, Mississippi. Dr. Segarra is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bronchogenic Cyst. His top areas of expertise are Lung Metastases, Emphysema, Bullae, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

Tarek Abdallah, MD, specializes in pulmonology at Ochsner Health. Dr. Abdallah brings a wealth of education and experience to his patients. After earning his medical degree at the Lebanese University Faculty of Medical Sciences in Beirut, Lebanon, in 2003, he continued his training in the United States. He completed his residency in internal medicine in 2009, and his fellowship in pulmonary diseases and critical care medicine in 2015, at Staten Island University Hospital Northwell Health in New York. Dr. Abdallah has been practicing in Louisiana since 2015, and joined Ochsner in 2018. Demonstrating his commitment to staying at the forefront of his field, he completed a one-year fellowship in sleep medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston - Texas Medical Center in 2024. Dr. Abdallah offers expertise in a wide range of lung and sleep disorders. He treats asthma, COPD, pleural diseases, sarcoidosis and autoimmune lung disorders, lung cancer and staging, sleep apnea, excessive sleepiness, insomnia, restless leg syndrome and parasomnias. Dr. Tarek Abdallah is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases, Critical Care Medicine, and Sleep Medicine. Dr. Abdallah is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Bronchogenic Cyst. His top areas of expertise are Lung Metastases, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Acute Interstitial Pneumonia, and Bronchitis.