Tyeler Rayburn, MD, is the founder of Atlas Medical, a deliberately counter-culture practice grounded in the principles of what it means to live a good life. He is also founder and lead of the Atlas Medical Foundation and Wiregrass Medical Education Collaborative (WMEC), The Foundation’s convening body and scholarship fund focused on sustaining the primary care and technical workforce in the rural Wiregrass bioregion.
He is privileged to be appointed as Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at a leading medical school for research and community care.
Dr. Rayburn received his Doctorate of Medicine (M.D.) from the Whiddon College of Medicine in coastal Alabama in the top quarter of his class. While working toward his medical degree he volunteered practicing bush-medicine in Sub-Saharan Africa, worked as a peer tutor of Anatomy & Physiology, and served on the USMLE board examination committee. He achieved clinical honors across diverse disciplines and was awarded a scholarship for clinical excellence for his pursuits in the neurosciences.
During his medical residency, he was the recipient of several awards, including an academic development scholarship for an international health project comparing primary care delivery in Northern Ireland and the US. During his residency he served on a medical team with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Lviv, Ukraine during the first one-hundred days of the Russo-Ukranian invasion, on the disaster medical response unit following the 2025 St Louis Tornado, and as a preceptor for a student-run free clinic in conjunction with the Salvation Army. He was appointed to numerous committees, including the wellness committee(s), hospital medicine committee, and as a delegate to the county and state chapters of his respective training programs. He also authored several curricula for physician training in emergency and hospital point-of-care-ultrasound, prison medicine, urgent care, and global health.
He achieved his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Biology and Pre-Medicine, with a focus in Neuroscience and an academic Minor in Psychology while on full academic scholarship, where he held positions as a research assistant investigating the oncogenic role of transcription factors in tumor progression, and as a biology departmental assistant supporting all manner of laboratory and teaching activities.
His current interests include bedside physical exam teaching, evidence-based medicine, point-of-care ultrasound, artificial intelligence in medicine and medical education, and exploring ways of building meaningful relationships with patients despite an increasingly fragmented and rushed health landscape.
One of his proudest achievements has been training his puppy, Atlas, a scruffy wirehaired pointing griffon, to work as a patient-therapy assistant when he's not busy sniffing every rock and tree on their many hikes across the continent together.
