He also serves as chief diagnostician at the Louisiana Aquatic Diagnostic Laboratory, which provides services to aquaculturists, ornamental fish keepers, state fisheries biologists, and many others. He has undertaken research into fish health and diagnostics for more than 25 years, and examined aquatic disease in more than 100 different aquatic species coming from 25-plus different states. He serves as vice president of the Fish Health Section of the American Fisheries Society and has had research papers published in the Journal of Aquatic Animal Health, and Diseases of Aquatic Animal Organisms.