“I considered Dr. Mullins a mentor and friend,” said Allen Perkins, M.D., M.P.H., professor and chair of family medicine. “He was well ahead of his time as an educator and was a pioneer in distance education. The leadership and guidance that he modeled have continued to inspire me to this day. He will be missed.”
Mullins earned his medical degree from Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. From 1954 to 1956, he served as a U.S. Army physician and was stationed in Tehran, Iran.
A resident of Fairhope, Mullins was a family physician in private practice for many years. He was a trailblazer in emerging medical technologies, traveling the world with colleagues from England and Australia espousing the value of electronic medical record systems decades before they became widely accepted.
Nationally, Mullins consulted with the National Institutes of Health and Crozer-Keystone Health Systems. Locally, he helped found the South West Alabama Abuse Network (SWAAN) that established remote examinations of child sexual abuse victims in rural Alabama.
He served in numerous local, state and national leadership positions with the Baldwin County Medical Society, the Medical Association of Alabama, and the American Academy of Family Physicians.
Despite all of these achievements, Mullins would be most proud to be referred to as a “country doctor.”
