Born in Brigham City, Utah and now residing in Farmington, Utah, Dr. Oman has had a life and education that has taken him to other places. During his elementary school years, he attended schools in Woods Cross, Utah; West Bountiful, Utah; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Grand Forks, North Dakota; Great Falls, Montana; Murray, Utah and Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
He graduated from Viewmont High School in Bountiful, Utah in 1973. While there, he played football, basketball and baseball as well as graduating with High Honors.
Post high school education included a year at Weber State College, a year at Ricks College, where he was quarterback on the football team, and two years at Utah State University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting.
Dr. Oman attended The Dental School at Northwestern University, one of the finest dental schools in the United States. He was affiliated with the American Student Dental Association, serving as a Trustee to the ASDA for the North Central United States.
Dr. Oman is a Fellow of the International College of Dentists and is active in professional societies, belonging to the American Dental Association, the Utah Dental Association, where he served on the Board of Trustees for seven years, the Salt Lake Dental Society, where he served as President, the South Davis Dental Society and The Academy of General Dentistry. He is a former member of the International Dental Health Foundation.
Dr. Oman has served as the dental representative on the Radiation Control Board of the Department of Environmental Quality for the State of Utah for the past eight years. He also served as the editor of the Utah Dental Association for seven years, publishing numerous op/ed pieces.
He has been married to his wife Joyce, who is a registered nurse with a bachelor’s degree in health education, since 1979. They are the lucky parents of two children, Becki who earned a bachelor’s and master’s degree in speech pathology from Utah State University, and Ben who currently attends Utah State. He is working on a degree in electrical engineering with pre-med requirements. Becki’s husband Kyle attends the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, where they keep the grandsons Weston and Elijah from the grandparents.
Dr. Oman’s pursuits are reading and more reading, with a little golf, gardening, church and civic work and a feeble but sincere attempt to learn how to play the bagpipes.