Amanda Rice, MD, FAAFP, is a board-certified Family Medicine physician, Associate Professor, and Associate Program Director for Family Medicine. A respected physician-educator and healthcare leader, she is also a lifestyle and habit coach, motivational speaker, consultant, author, contributor, and founder of Inspiring Impact Consulting LLC. She is an author and contributor to several medical books, manuscripts, and professional journals, sharing her expertise in medicine, medical education, leadership, mentorship, quality improvement, and community health. Her professional experience spans rural medicine, urgent care, private practice, community health centers, academic medicine, and organizational leadership. Widely known across social media as “The Tatted MD,” Dr. Rice has built an influential platform by combining medical expertise, authentic storytelling, faith, and practical encouragement. Guided by her theme, “Breaking Stereotypes, Building Healthier Communities,” she challenges limiting beliefs about what medicine, leadership, wellness, and purpose should look like while empowering individuals and communities to pursue healthier, stronger, and more fulfilled lives. Her purpose is to help women, families, and communities improve their health, develop sustainable habits, overcome adversity, recognize their God-given worth, and walk boldly in purpose. Through transparency about her own challenges and triumphs, she reminds others that difficult seasons do not disqualify them. Instead, those experiences can become the very tools God uses to prepare them for greater influence and impact. Faith is the foundation of Dr. Rice’s life, leadership, and calling. She is a devoted follower of Christ, a praise and worship leader, and a woman who deeply loves God and seeks to honor Him through medicine, service, ministry, writing, leadership, and motivational speaking. Whether she is caring for patients, educating future physicians, mentoring others, speaking from a stage, leading worship, contributing to medical literature, or encouraging her online community, her mission remains the same: to inspire healing, strengthen faith, break stereotypes, build healthier communities, and empower others to live healthier, more resilient, and purpose-filled lives. Dr. Rice’s life and platform reflect her belief that purpose is forged through adversity, resilience is strengthened through faith, and every person can create a meaningful impact when they surrender their gifts and journey to God.
