Dr. Mills completed his fellowship at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and residency at Beaumont Health in both Wayne and Royal Oak, Mich. He earned his medical degree from the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria.

Dr. Mills decided he wanted to be a doctor after a high school teacher sparked an early interest in science. "She let us do hands-on anatomy and really made it fun and interesting," he said. "As a 10th grader, when you're doing dissections, you just think that's pretty cool. And she just explained details in a way that made sense to me.