Director and Head of Pathology, Division of Marine Mammal Research and Conservation
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Ft. Pierce, Florida
Adjunct Professor, Department of Pathology,
University of Miami School of Medicine
Affiliate Professor, Florida Atlantic University
V.M.D., University of Pennsylvania, Ph.D. , Florida International University
GBossart@HBOI.edu
His recent published research has documented emerging diseases in manatees, whales, dolphins, and birds. He recently completed a chapter exclusively on manatee medicine in an international textbook of marine mammal medicine. He has helped characterized the first viral disease in manatees and was responsible for developing the first immunohistochemical technique for diagnosing brevetoxicosis in marine mammals and birds. This diagnostic methodology is now being tested in humans exposed to brevetoxins.
Publications and Awards:
Dean’s Clinical Research Award for his pioneering work at the University
of Miami School of Medicine.
He has collaborative research projects with the National Marine
Fisheries Service, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
and the Miami Museum of Science.
Examples of his research can be found
in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association,
Veterinary Pathology, Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine, Veterinary
Record, Journal of Avian Medicine and Surgery, Toxicologic Pathology,
Marine Mammal Science, Experimental and Molecular Pathology, Aquatic
Mammals, Florida Scientist, Journal of Raptor Research and the Journal
of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation.
