Sabrina Q. Mikan, Ph.D., RN, ACNS-BC

Dr. Sabrina Mikan is Director of Research Support and Privacy Board Operations for Texas Oncology. Dr. Mikan is also a clinical nurse specialist at Texas Oncology-Austin Central. Her career includes clinical care, nursing research, and teaching undergraduate and graduate students at The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing. She has worked in palliative and hospice care since 2003.

For eight years, Dr. Mikan was involved in the program development and clinical aspects of patient care statewide for the treatment review, advance care planning and survivorship programs. Specifically, she contributes to the care of individuals with advanced stage cancers, assists with advance care planning, and connecting individuals to palliative medicine. Always at the heart of her work is the focus on improving patient quality of life.

She is the Texas Oncology Privacy Board Chair. In this role, she provides oversight of the Privacy Board by supervising support services to investigators for non-funded trials. As Chair, she has established the Privacy Board bylaws, policies and procedures, plans and coordinates Board meetings, as well as monitors and mentors the progress of research activities. Non-Funded Trials research is often improving patient care through evidence-based practice and/or policy changes where these studies are presented to local, regional, national and international audiences.

Dr. Mikan has presented her research findings at national and international conferences including the International Congress of Palliative Medicine, Oncology Nursing Society Annual Congress, Center for Health Promotion Research at UT Austin, MD Anderson Cancer Center, the Center to Advance Palliative Care and the American Society of Clinical Oncology. Dr. Mikan is an adjunct Clinical Professor of Nursing at The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing. In this role she serves as a clinical preceptor and professional mentor for master’s and doctoral students. She routinely gives lectures on palliative medicine, advance care planning, and survivorship at UT Austin, Concordia University, and Austin Community College.