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Miskimins: ‘I get to help people do
what they are really passionate about’
A longtime professor with the USD Sanford
School of Medicine has been named to a new
leadership role.
Robin Miskimins, Ph.D., was named
associate dean for research at the school on July
1, and she couldn’t be more excited.
“It’s something that I really was looking
forward to,” she said. “It gives me an opportunity
to do a lot more for the school, I hope, in terms
of helping them develop their research
program.”
As associate dean, Miskimins said she will
aid the faculty by helping them find funding
opportunities, networking and identifying
collaborators.
In addition, she will work with medical
students “to make sure they get some exposure
to scholarly activity and research, and be able to
pursue their interests.”
“It also goes as far as the residents and
clinical faculty that have interests in helping them develop those,
and teaching them things they may not know, giving them training
opportunities, helping them publish, identifying where that might
be, how to write, how to do scholarly activity,” she added. “Some of
them have a lot of interest, but not much experience, so using my
experience to help guide them to do the things that they would
really like to do.”
In addition, Miskimins will be charged with increasing SSOM’s
externally funded research, enhancing the school’s academic profile
and building collaborative relationships with a variety of partners.
“With her outstanding talents, extensive research background
and strong interpersonal skills, Dr. Miskimins will help us continue
to advance our institutional goals,” said Mary Nettleman, M.D.,
M.S., M.A.C.P., dean of the Sanford School of Medicine and vice
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Miskimins has been at USD for the past 22
years. She began as an assistant professor, and
became an associate professor, and a full professor
of basic biomedical sciences, a role she still holds.
“About four years ago I became the director
of faculty and research development, which
started out within the division of basic sciences in
the school of medicine and then expanded to all
health affairs, which means it included the school
of health sciences,” she said.
Miskimins earned her Ph.D. in molecular
biology from the University of Arizona in 1983,
her M.S. in genetics from Arizona in 1978 and
her B.A. in molecular and cellular developmental
biology from the University of Colorado in 1976.
Her research interests include development of
myelin in the central nervous system, as well as
the relationship of myelin to disease states such as
multiple sclerosis and schizophrenia.
She is the recipient of several academic honors, including the
2007 Chester McVay Award presented by the University of South
Dakota School of Medicine and the 1999 Board Of Regents Award
for Excellence in Research.
When she is not working, her hobbies include woodworking,
birding, gardening, golfing and photography.
“I don’t have any trouble keeping myself occupied,” she said
with a laugh.
Miskimins said the aspect of her work that she most enjoys is
“the fact that I get to help people do what they are really passionate
about.
“For me, that’s the essence of what this is,” she said.
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