Dr Robert Mullins

Biography

Dr Robert Mullins AES AEP FESSA (Robbie) is the Director of Clinical Services and Education, and the Course Coordinator of the Bachelor of Clinical Exercise Physiology for School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences at QUT. For the QUT Health Clinics he is the Director of the Exercise Physiology and Nutrition & Dietetics Clinics. He specialises in cardiovascular, respiratory and metabolic conditions rehabilitation. Robbie has been an Accredited Exercise Physiologist since 2003 with clinical practice experience across the hospital, community and university health clinic setting. He was awarded Fellowship of Exercise and Sports Science Australia (ESSA) in 2017 and was a former member of the ESSA Accreditation Council and QLD State Chapter. He has worked extensively with the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH) as a clinician and researcher in heart failure, cardiac rehabilitation and type 2 diabetes. More recently his work focused on client experience of health care and student experience of learning in a university health clinic. He has held previous leadership and advisory roles for Queensland Health as Chair State-wide Exercise Physiology Discipline and Chair Clinical Education Training and Advisory Group. Robbie also holds qualifications in teaching in higher education, strength and conditioning and sports medicine. His personal exercise interest is in triathlon, and he competed in the ITU World Triathlon Championships for Australia in Hamburg 2007, Budapest 2010, and London 2013.