Dr. Malik Spady was born and raised in New Orleans, LA. She attended Metairie Park County Day School and completed her undergraduate at the University of Virginia. Dr. Spady received a Doctor of Medicine degree from Virginia Cmmonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, VA. She completed an internal medicine residency at Louisiana State University in Lafayette, Louisiana. Additionally, Dr. Spady completed a rheumatology fellowship at Ochsner Clinic Foundation in New Orleans, Louisiana.