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Dr. Oxman is a professor of medicine and pathology at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, and a staff physician in the infectious diseases section at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in San Diego. He is National Chairman of VA Cooperative Study #403, also known as the Shingles Prevention Study.

Dr. Oxman received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 1958 and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School in 1963. He served as an intern and resident on the Harvard Medical Service at the Boston City Hospital with Dr. Maxwell Finland; as a staff associate at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH) with Dr. Wallace P. Rowe; and as a research fellow at Harvard Medical School with Dr. John F. Enders. He was a fellow and faculty member in the Childrens Hospital-Beth Israel Hospital Infectious Diseases Training Program; an associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at Harvard Medical School; director of the Clinical Virology Laboratory at the Children’s Hospital in Boston; and the recipient of an American Cancer Society Faculty Research Award. In 1976, Dr. Oxman moved to the University of California, San Diego to assume his current positions as professor of medicine and pathology, and to serve as chief of the infectious diseases section at the San Diego VA Medical Center.

Dr. Oxman's major research interests have been the mechanism of action of Interferon, the control of SV40 and Adenovirus-SV40 hybrid virus gene expression, and the pathogenesis, diagnosis, treatment and prevention of viral diseases, especially diseases caused by members of the Herpesvirus family. He has played a significant role in training and mentoring physician-scientists at Harvard and the University of California, and in the use of double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trials to evaluate the treatment of herpes simplex and varicella-zoster virus infections. He has authored more than 130 book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Dr. Oxman served for three years as a Lieutenant Commander in the USPHS, receiving an Honorable Discharge in 1968. He is a diplomat of the National Board of Medical Examiners, and is licensed as a physician by the State of California Board of Medical Quality Assurance. Dr. Oxman has served as a member of a number of advisory and editorial boards, including the NIAID Task Force on Virology; the NIH Experimental Virology Study Section; the Armed Forces Epidemiological Board; the Advisory Committee of the NIAID Collaborative Antiviral Study Group; the Science Board of the Biomedical Research Centre, University of British Columbia; the Microbiology Test Committee of the National Board of Medical Examiners; the Scientific Advisory Board of the Varicella-Zoster Virus (VZV) Research Foundation; and editorial-advisory boards of the Journal of Interferon Research, Archives of Virology, Experientia, and Bailliere's Clinical Infectious Diseases. He is currently a fellow of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and a member of the American Society for Virology, the American Society for Microbiology, the Society for General Microbiology, the American Society for Clinical Investigation, and the Defense Health Board.