Christina Macejko joined DVM Newsmagazine as senior editor in May 2008 after 10 years working in newspapers.Most recently, she worked as metro editor of a mid-sized daily in Ohio. Prior to becoming editor, she was a reporter at that paper and another smaller daily newspaper, where she covered government, education, business, courts, crime and features.

 Christina covers a variety of veterinary news subjects and features at DVM, including the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA.) She also is responsible for the veterinary news in several states: North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. In addition to writing the news, she edits the copy written by DVM Newsmagazine staff members and contributing authors.

 She lives in a suburb of Cleveland with her husband, Jay, and their two daughters.

 Retired Brig. Gen. Michael B. Cates was named director of Kansas State University's master of public health program. 

The former commander of the U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine and chief of the U.S. Army Veterinary Corps says he is a longtime advocate of one health — multidisciplinary, proactive approaches to health. 

KSU's master of public health program, housed in the College of Veterinary Medicine, requires 42 semester hours. It covers public-health concerns, including obesity/exercise, human nutrition, food safety, infectious/zoonotic diseases and toxicology. It involves courses and faculty from the colleges of Agriculture, Arts and Sciences, Human Ecology and Veterinary Medicine. 

Cates also will serve as a professor in the veterinary college. 

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Manhattan, Kan. - Retired Brig. General Michael B. Cates was named director of Kansas State University's master of public health program.

Retired Army veterinarian heads KSU master's program

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