Stoskopf, Michael K.

Michael K. Stoskopf was born on March 21, 1950 in Garden City, Kansas. He received both his B.S. and his D.V.M. from Colorado State University, in 1973 and 1975 respectively. In 1986 Stoskopf received his Ph.D. in Biochemical Toxicology / Environmental Health Sciences from Johns Hopkins University.

Stoskopf has worked at North Carolina State University since 1989. As of June 2011, he is Professor of Aquatics, Wildlife, and Zoologic Medicine and of Molecular and Environmental Toxicology in the Department of Clinical Sciences at the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Before arriving at North Carolina State University, Stoskopf taught at a number of institutions, including Memphis State University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Maryland. Stoskopf has also worked as a veterinarian at the Overton Park Zoo and Aquarium in Memphis, Tennessee (1975-1977) and the Baltimore Zoological Society (1977-1981). He was Chief of Medicine at the National Aquarium in Baltimore, Maryland, from 1981 to 1988.

Over the course of his career, Stoskopf has also been involved with various professional organizations, including the Academy of Zoo Medicine (Chairman, 1979-1985), the International Association of Aquatic Animal Medicine (President, 1988-1989), the American College of Zoological Medicine (President, 1995-1997), and the Aquaculture and Seafood Advisory Committee of the American Veterinary Medical Association (1993-2000), among others. He was named a Diplomate of ACZM in 1984.

Stoskopf has authored scores of scholarly articles and book chapters on a variety of zoological and veterinary topics, as well as four books dealing primarily with fish medicine: Fish Medicine (1992), A Diagnostic Pathologist’s Introduction to Fish (1989), Tropical Fish Medicine (editor, 1988), Marine Tropical Fish Medicine (with S. Citino, 1987). He has also taken on editorial responsibilities at a number of zoological and aquatic journals.

Stoskopf is married to Suzanne Kennedy-Stoskopf, an expert in wildlife infectious disease and an environmental immunologist. As of June 2011, Kennedy-Stoskopf is Research Professor of Wildlife Infection Diseases in the Department of Clinical Sciences at the College of Veterinary Medicine at North Carolina State University.

For more information about Stoskopf's professional accomplishments, his CV--last updated in December 2006--is available in the collection file.

From the guide to the Michael K. Stoskopf Papers, 1949-2004 (bulk 1980s-2000s), (Special Collections Research Center)