This news item is about: Dr. Rod Getchell has assumed leadership of the AQUAVET training program for aquatic medicine. After 25 years of service, Getchell’s collaborator Dr. Paul Bowser has passed on the Associate Director’s banner. As Associate Director, Getchell will organize the program’s logistics, including everything from helping construct curricula, finding instructors, arranging field trips and accommodations, and booking teaching spaces, to orchestrating admissions and answering deluges of questions from prospective students. Throughout his work Getchell will carry on the program’s tradition as the gold standard for hands-on training in aquatic medicine.