The Team

Tray earned his Masters as a Acute Care Nurse Practitioner at the University Of Alabama Birmingham. He is an Arab native and has served the Marshall County area for over 7 years as an ACNP working at a local clinic and the MMCN ER, where he strived to ensure that his patients received the best health care possible.  Tray now takes the role of both clinician as well as owner of Marshall Primary to continue provide quality health care to the citizens of Marshall County.  The Lord has blessed him with 5 amazing children, Jordan, Emma, Christian, Bennett and Rosie. He says without the Lord and his family, this practice would have never been possible

Victor L. Sparks, MD is a lifelong native of Arab, Alabama. He was born in the old Arab Hospital & was raised in Arab, where he graduated from high school in 1984. He subsequently graduated from the University of Alabama with a BS in 1989 followed by the Doctorate of Medicine degree from The University of Alabama School of Medicine (UAB) in 1994. His residency training was completed in 1997 at the UAB Family Medicine program in Huntsville. He is currently the Physician Director of Emergency Medicine at Marshall Medical Center North where he has been seeing patients in the ER since 1996. He is happily married to the “love of his life & best friend”, Tammy L. Sparks. They have four wonderful children & an amazing son-in-law; Alada & Clint, Caroline, Olivia & Grayson. His desire is to participate in quality, compassionate care all to the glory of God. 

Laura earned her MSN from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and she earned her nursing degree from Auburn University. She is board certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner through the AANP, and has been practicing as an Nurse practitioner serving Marshall county for 3 years. Laura is a Arab native that lives here with her husband Zack and two sons, Grady and Warren. She says she loves serving the community that she grew up in.  

Christy is originally from Albertville, Alabama. She lives in Arab now with her husband, Bruce, and daughter, Anna Kate. In 1993, she started her journey in Healthcare as a phlebotomist at Marshall South, before transferring to Marshall North in 1996, where she met her husband. She says shes been very fortunate to learn both sides of the counter in some great offices over the last 10 years. She is looking forward to this next chapter of her life in Arab, taking care of her people. 

Tara was born in Michigan, and moved to Arab as a baby with her family. She lives in Arab with her husband Nick. Upon graduating from Brindlee Mountain in 2018, Tara has received her CMA certification, and has been in the medical field for 4 years now. Her goal is to go back to school and complete her RN degree in the future. Tara says she is very fortunate to have started working at Marshall Primary Care, LLC, and cannot wait to grow and continue helping patients in her hometown! 

Heavanie is from Guntersville, Alabama upon graduating Guntersville Highschool in 2013, Heavanie received her B.A in Health Care Administration from Columbia Southern University. She has always had a passion for helping others and knew joining the MPC team would be the perfect place to be. She lives in Arab with her husband Jeremy and 3 children Kase, Will and Andi. Heavanie loves to serve her community and cant wait to grow with Marshall Primary Care, LLC.