Tara N. Palmore is an American physician-scientist and epidemiologist specializing in patient safety through prevention of hospital-acquired infections.

[citation needed] Palmore earned an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and a M.D.

[1] In 2005, Palmore began her career at the NIH as a staff clinician in the NIAID laboratory of clinical infectious diseases.

She became deputy hospital epidemiologist in the NIH Clinical Center in 2007, focused on optimizing patient safety through prevention of hospital-acquired infections.

In 2013, along with Dr. Julie Segre and other NIH colleagues, Palmore was awarded a Samuel J. Heyman Award for Federal Employee of the Year for her work stopping a deadly epidemic of a multi-drug resistant strain of Klebsiella pneumoniae through genomic sequencing.