BA Biology (Lafayette College); MSc Pathobiology (Univ. Connecticut); PhD Fish Health & Aquaculture (Univ. Idaho); US Fulbright Scholar (Univ. Iceland); American Fisheries Society Certified Fisheries Biologist; US Fish & Wildlife Service certified Title-50 Inspector
Dr. David Groman has been working in the field of wild and aquaculture fish pathology for over 40 years, following his undergraduate training at Lafayette College he began his post-graduate career at the Northeast Wildlife Disease Center at the University of Connecticut in 1976-1980 and continued onto the US National Fisheries Academy in 1978-1979, University of Idaho 1979-1983 and the University of Iceland 1983-1984. He brings a wide variety of fish health and fish pathology experiences to his current job in Aquatic Diagnostic Services at the Atlantic Veterinary College (AVC) having worked on fish health projects and diagnostic cases in Atlantic Canada & Worldwide since arriving to the AVC in 1988.
Since 1996 Dr. Groman has been Section Head of Aquatic Diagnostic Services at the AVC, and in this role has reviewed thousands of fish disease cases, including those from a large variety of wild fin-fish and shellfish. In this regard, Dr. Groman would offer the aquatic animal health clients and companies a breath of experience in the field of fish disease, which can be applied equally to both potential research projects.