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Outstanding Tuberculosis Expert and Notable ‘One Health’ Leader Veterinarian Recognized in Prestigous U.S. Mayo Clinic Alumni Association Magazine   Charles O. Thoen, DVM, PhD, a noted American TB authority, immediate past President of the American Veterinary Epidemiology Society (AVES), and a One Health leader has been featured in the highly regarded Mayo Clinic Alumni Association Magazine, 2016, Issue 3.  Please see the piece about Dr. Thoen on pages 28-30 in https://alumniassociation.mayo.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/MC4409-16031.pdf. “During his half-century-long career in veterinary medicine, Charles Thoen, D.V.M., Ph.D. (M ’71), has worked with food-producing animals, companion animals, nonhuman primates, elk, buffalo and even elephants. Early in his career he was a veterinary medical epidemiologist for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). He later chaired the department of Veterinary Microbiology and Preventive Medicine at Iowa State University, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease Scientific Committee on Tuberculosis in Animals, and World Health Organization Committee on Animal Tuberculosis. ...” Among many other publications, Dr. Thoen is also co-editor/co-author of Zoonotic Tuberculosis: Mycobacterium bovis and Other Pathogenic Mycobacteria http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118474295,subjectCd-LS50.html - 3rd Edition (2014) which is listed among other notable One Health textbooks posted on the One Health Initiative website’s Home Page sidebar link entitled “Animal Diseases & Humans” http://www.onehealthinitiative.com/animalHumans.php. Permission to post on the One Health Initiative website was granted October 17, 2016 by: Judith D. Anderson Director Alumni Center