Annual acknowledgement of BMC medicine manuscript reviewers

Contributing reviewers

The editors of BMC Medicine would like to extend our sincere thanks to all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 12 (2014). The time and expertise they have provided is greatly appreciated.

Ali Abbasi

Netherlands

Rebecca Abbott

Australia

Frances Aboud

Canada

Bo Abrahamsen

Denmark

Harold Adams

USA

Alastair Ager

USA

Devendra Agrawal

USA

Golo Ahlenstiel

Australia

Nasser Al-Daghri

Saudi Arabia

Waleed Alhazzani

Canada

Mohammad Ali

USA

Kristina Allen-Brady

USA

Rieke Alten

Germany

Doug Altman

UK

Gloria Alvarez-Llamas

Spain

Juan-Manuel Anaya

Colombia

Hans-Joachim Anders

Germany

Ranjit Mohan Anjana

India

Nicholas Anstey

Australia

Judith Arnetz

USA

Armando Arredondo

Mexico

Richard Ashcroft

UK

Dagfinn Aune

UK

Kari Auranen

Finland

Philippe Autier

France

Rasmi Avula

India

Helen Ayles

Zambia

Laurent Azoulay

Canada

Kathryn Backholer

Australia

Sunil Badve

USA

William Baker

USA

Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg

Netherlands

Padmapriya Banada

USA

Hector Barajas Martinez

USA

Alyssa Barry

Australia

Elizabeth Barry

USA

Giovanni Battista Bartolucci

Italy

Diego Bassani

Canada

John Batsis

USA

Michael Bauer

Germany

Jeannette Beasley

USA

Clemens Becker

Germany

James Beeson

Australia

Philip Bejon

UK

Jimmy Bell

UK

Ezequiel Bellorin-Font

Venezuela

Derrick Bennett

UK

Thierry Berghmans

Belgium

James Bernat

USA

Sonja Berndt

USA

Franco Berrino

Italy

Zulfiqar Bhutta

Pakistan

Roland Bingisser

Switzerland

Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai

Italy

Michael Blaha

USA

Miri Blank

Israel

Zachary Bloomgarden

USA

Sally Blower

USA

Richard Bohannon

USA

Dale Bond

USA

Stefanos Bonovas

Greece

Amy Borenstein

USA

Claudia Borreani

Italy

Cristina Bosetti

Italy

Luigi Bouchard

Canada

Pierre Bougneres

France

Matthew Boulton

USA

Paul Bourbeau

USA

Nash Boutros

USA

Peter Bower

UK

Cynthia Boyd

USA

Bernard Brabin

UK

Su Brailsford

UK

Jonathan Braun

USA

Lorraine Brennan

Ireland

Emilio Bria

Italy

Gordon Broderick

Canada

Martin Brüne

Germany

Hermine Brunner

USA

Jonathan Burns

South Africa

Howard Burris

USA

Barbara Burtness

USA

Peter Byass

Sweden

Christopher Callahan

USA

David Cameron

UK

Cristina Campoy

Spain

Giovanni Cancarini

Italy

Gideon Caplan

Australia

Chris Carlsten

Canada

Virginia Carrieri-Kohlman

USA

Giulio Cavalli

Italy

Sandra Cesario

USA

Steven Chadban

Australia

Christine Chambers

Canada

David Champion

Barbados

Jeremy Chapman

Australia

Abhijit Chaudhuri

UK

Tanya Chikritzhs

Australia

Davide Chiumello

Italy

Gerardo Chowell

USA

Robert Christensen

USA

George Chrousos

Greece

Andrea Cipriani

UK

Duncan Clark

USA

Michael Clark

UK

Peter Clifton

Australia

Jane Coad

UK

Marco Colleoni

Italy

Simon Collin

UK

Helena Cortez-Pinto

Portugal

Carol Coupland

UK

Pim Cuijpers

Netherlands

Timothy Dall

USA

Gennaro D'Amico

Italy

Matija Daniel

UK

Kaberi Dasgupta

Canada

Nicholas Day

Thailand

Peter de Jonge

Netherlands

Michel de Lorgeril

France

Sandrine de Ribaupierre

Canada

Luc de Witte

Netherlands

Lisa DeAngelis

USA

Charles Decarli

USA

Agnes Dechartres

France

Suha Deen

UK

Jean-Marie Degryse

Belgium

Vittorio Demicheli

Italy

Youping Deng

USA

Daniel Denis

USA

Marc Denis

France

Patrick Dessein

South Africa

Augusto Di Castelnuovo

Italy

Massimo Di Maio

Italy

Eleftherios Diamandis

Canada

Paul Dickman

Sweden

Diederik Dippel

Netherlands

Jodie Dodd

Australia

Denise Doolan

Australia

Therese Dowswell

UK

Pat Doyle

UK

Tommaso Dragani

Italy

Mark Dransfield

USA

Joost Drenth

USA

Stephen Duffy

UK

Venkata Duvvuri

Canada

Johanna Dwyer

USA

Walter Dzik

USA

Kenneth Eames

UK

Julian Eaton

Togo

Solvig Ekblad

Sweden

Vikki Entwistle

UK

Susan Everson-Rose

USA

Pam Factor-Litvak

USA

David Faeh

Switzerland

Karl Fagerstrom

Sweden

Rita Faria

UK

Deborah Fein

USA

Eva Fenwick

Australia

Alfio Ferlito

Italy

Marcelo Ferreira

Brazil

Emilio Ferrer

USA

Eduardo Ferriolli

Brazil

Edith Feskens

Netherlands

Jess Fiedorowicz

USA

Guido Filler

Canada

Milton Finegold

USA

Susan Fiscus

USA

Abraham Flaxman

USA

Martin Fleisher

USA

Mary Fletcher

USA

Cor Jesus Fontes

Brazil

Betsy Foxman

USA

Giovanny Franca

Brazil

Massimo Franchini

Italy

Kenneth Freedland

USA

Michael Frenneaux

UK

Matthew Friedman

USA

Jan Friedrich

Canada

Susanne Fuessel

Germany

Harold Furr

USA

Takahisa Furuta

Japan

Annemarie Gagnon

Canada

Gennaro Galasso

Italy

Catharine Gale

UK

Daozhou Gao

USA

Michel Garenne

France

Amit Garg

Canada

Paul Garner

UK

Gerald Gartlehner

Austria

Colin Geddes

UK

Chiara Gentili

Italy

Blaise Genton

Switzerland

Steven George

USA

Davina Ghersi

Australia

Panteleimon Giannakopoulos

Switzerland

Peter Giannoudis

UK

Ruth Gilbert

UK

Frank Gilliland

USA

Ian Gilmore

UK

James Giordano

USA

Gary Giovino

USA

John Gladman

UK

Thomas Glass

USA

Stephen Glasser

USA

Lise Gluud

Denmark

Danijela Gnjidic

Australia

Michael Gollob

Canada

Takahisa Gono

Japan

Allan Gottschalk

USA

Pierre Goussard

South Africa

William B Grant

USA

Darren C Greenwood

UK

Marie Griffin

USA

Wolfgang Grisold

Austria

Sandeep Grover

India

Danan Gu

USA

Bruno Gualano

Brazil

Giovanni Guaraldi

Italy

Leonor Guariguata

Belgium

Iva Gunnarsson

Sweden

Lars L Gustafsson

Sweden

Erik Gylfe

Sweden

Balazs Györffy

Hungary

Mary Haan

USA

Walter Haas

Germany

Peter Hajek

UK

Andrew Hall

UK

Elizabeth Halloran

USA

Shannon Halloway

USA

John Halperin

USA

Julien Haroche

France

Frank Harrell

USA

Nicholas Hart

UK

Elaine Hay

UK

Joel Hay

USA

Colleen Hayes

USA

Kirstie Haywood

UK

Hiddo Heerspink

Netherlands

Philippe Hernigou

France

Philip Hill

New Zealand

Anke Hinney

Germany

Timothy Hofer

USA

Michael Hoffmeister

Germany

Bruce Hollis

USA

Geoffrey Holmes

UK

Thomas Allan House

UK

Gang Hu

USA

Frank Hu

USA

Holly Hull

USA

Susan Hutfless

USA

Brian Hutton

Canada

Jane Hutton

UK

Ahmed Idbaih

France

Rob Imrie

UK

Anne Jackson

UK

Graham Jackson

UK

K.S. Jacob

India

Edward Janus

Australia

Bach Jean-Francois

France

Prakash Mohan Jeena

South Africa

Pavla Jendelova

Czech Republic

David Jenkins

Canada

Prabhat Jha

Canada

Joaquin Jimenez

USA

Markus Jokela

Finland

Hayley Jones

UK

Jessica Jones-Smith

USA

Somchai Jongwutiwes

Thailand

Susan Jordan

Australia

Matthew Jose

Australia

Jonathan Juliano

USA

Siripen Kalayanarooj

Thailand

Bonnie Kaplan

Canada

Aaron Katz

USA

Mark Katz

USA

Justin Keen

UK

Cyril Kendall

Canada

Andre Pascal Kengne

Cameroon

Ronald Kessler

USA

Hector Keun

UK

Carl Kirkwood

Australia

George Kirov

UK

Niranjan Kissoon

Canada

Jos Kleijnen

UK

Dhanpat Kochar

India

Clemens Kocken

Netherlands

Paul Komenda

Canada

Suminori Kono

Japan

Amos Korczyn

Israel

Boris Kotchoubey

Germany

Shyam Kottilil

USA

Anthony Kovac

USA

Reinhard Krausz

Canada

Alexander Kulminski

USA

Anton Kunst

Netherlands

Andreas Kurtz

Germany

Anne Stine Kvehaugen

Norway

Dirk Lachenmeier

Germany

Andre Lalonde

Canada

Scott Langevin

USA

Peter Langhorne

UK

Simon Langley-Evans

UK

Catharina Lavebratt

Sweden

Carl Lavie

USA

Michael Lawrence

USA

David Le Couteur

Australia

Jinseok Lee

South Korea

Peter Lee

UK

Hongxing Lei

China

Michael Leitzmann

USA

Trudo Lemmens

Canada

Grigorios Leontiadis

Canada

Andres G. Lescano

Peru

Rona Levy

USA

Joel Lexchin

Canada

Chin-Shang Li

USA

Wenbin Liang

Australia

Judith Lichtman

USA

Eric Lien

USA

David J Lim

USA

Jakob Linseisen

Germany

Francesca Little

South Africa

Andrew Liu

USA

Xiaoan Liu

China

Fiona Lobban

UK

Yoon Kong Loke

UK

Alan Lopez

Australia

Jenny Guek-Hong Low

Singapore

Robert Luben

UK

Andreas Lundh

Denmark

Knut E A Lundin

Norway

Adrian Luty

France

Kristine Lykens

USA

Ethel Maciel

Brazil

Nick Macklon

UK

Markus Maeurer

Sweden

Kathryn Maitland

UK

Mark Manary

USA

Samuel Mann

USA

Claus Manniche

Denmark

Martí Manyalich

Spain

William Manzanares

Uruguay

Vincent Marchesi

USA

Fabrizio Marcucci

Italy

Vitaly Margulis

USA

Staffan Marild

Sweden

Jose Marin

Spain

Maurie Markman

USA

Hugh Markus

UK

Francesco Marongiu

Italy

Thomas Marrie

Canada

Miguel Martinez-Gonzalez

Spain

Luca Mascitelli

Italy

Joseph Massaro

USA

Colin Mathers

Switzerland

Paolo Matricardi

Italy

Richard Maude

Thailand

Peter Maxwell

UK

Harriet Mayanja

Uganda

Oleg Mayboroda

Netherlands

James McCarthy

Australia

Sarah McDonald

Canada

Leah McGrath

USA

Chris McManus

UK

David McManus

USA

Lisa McShane

USA

David Menkes

New Zealand

Usha Menon

UK

Stewart Mercer

UK

Stefano Merler

Italy

Margaret Miller

Australia

Virginia M. Miller

USA

Edward Mills

Canada

Martin Miner

USA

Alec Miners

UK

Roberto Miniati

Italy

Kazutoyo Miura

USA

Eiji Miyoshi

Japan

David Moher

Canada

Ben Willem Mol

Netherlands

Ann Moormann

USA

Nils Morgenthaler

Germany

Ralph Mösges

Germany

Alan Moss

USA

Alfredo Mota

Portugal

Miranda Mugford

UK

Zindoga Mukandavire

UK

Matthew Muldoon

USA

Majon Muller

Netherlands

Javier Munoz

USA

Michael Murphy

UK

Robert L. Murphy

USA

Dedee Murrell

Australia

Theonest Mutabingwa

Tanzania

Stella Muthuri

UK

John Myburgh

Australia

Janet Myers

USA

Luis Nacul

UK

VasI Naganathan

Australia

John Nemunaitis

USA

Marie-Louise Newell

UK

Marie Ng

USA

Gregory Nichols

USA

Ellen Niederberger

Germany

Dorte Lisbet Nielsen

Denmark

Tuomo Nieminen

Finland

George Ntaios

Greece

Kimberly O'Brien

USA

Nobuaki Ochi

Japan

Daniel O'Connor

Australia

Stephen O'Leary

Australia

Adrienne O'Neil

Australia

Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen

Netherlands

Peter O'Sullivan

Australia

Jose A Oteo

Spain

Jan Erik Otterstad

Norway

Karen Ousey

UK

Betty Pace

USA

Balakrishnan Pachamuthu

India

Tibor Palfai

USA

Panagiotis Papanagiotou

Germany

Carmine Pariante

UK

Jana Parizkova

Czech Republic

Anna Peeters

Australia

Margaret Pepe

USA

Kenneth Perkins

USA

Ivan Perry

Ireland

Lars Åke Persson

Sweden

Vanamail Perumal

India

Jaime Peters

UK

Mark Peters

UK

William Petri

USA

John Petrie

UK

Daniel Petrovic

Slovenia

Olivia Phung

USA

Antonio Picarelli

Italy

Michael Pichichero

USA

Marco Alessandro Pierotti

Italy

Bertram Pitt

USA

Lucilla Poston

UK

Hollis Potter

USA

John Powles

UK

Alexandra Prados-Torres

Spain

Martin Preisig

Switzerland

Theodore Price

USA

Giancarlo Pruneri

Italy

Milo Puhan

USA

Chengxuan Qiu

Sweden

Petros Rafailidis

Greece

James Raftery

UK

Anita Raj

USA

Swapnil Rajpathak

USA

Taina Rantanen

Finland

Julie Ratcliffe

Australia

Ken Redekop

Netherlands

Jürgen Rehm

Canada

Eduardo Reis

Brazil

Jochen Reiser

USA

Jan Remme

France

Yves Renaudineau

France

Andrew Rhodes

UK

Fernando Rico-Villademoros

Spain

Kristin Riekert

USA

Christine Ritchie

USA

David Roberts

UK

Mark Robson

USA

Nicolas Roche

France

Mauricio Rodrigues

Brazil

Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo

Spain

Sabine Rohrmann

Switzerland

Pedro Romero-Aroca

Spain

Pol Maria Rommens

Germany

Matthew Rosengart

USA

Christian Roth

Germany

Laurence Rubenstein

USA

Gerta Rücker

Germany

Elaine Rush

New Zealand

Lisa Rydén

Sweden

Farid Saad

Germany

Caroline Sabin

UK

Marcus Saemann

Austria

Monika Safford

USA

Richard Saitz

USA

Oliver Sakowitz

Germany

Emilia Salvadori

Italy

Elizabeth Sampson

UK

Helle Samuelsen

Denmark

David Sanders

UK

Hidefumi Sasaki

Japan

Shizuka Sasazuki

Japan

Sivasankaran Sashidharan

UK

Leslie Satin

USA

Roberta Scherer

USA

Jan Schieveld

Netherlands

Michael Schlander

Germany

Helen Schneider

South Africa

Peter Schofield

Australia

Marcus J Schultz

Netherlands

Kevin Schwartzman

Canada

Ralf Schwarzer

Germany

Guido Schwarzer

Germany

Andreas Scorilas

Greece

Kate Scott

New Zealand

Lori Scott-Sheldon

USA

Éric Senneville

France

Franco Servadei

Italy

Ruth Shalev

Israel

Dennis Shanks

Australia

Kenji Shibuya

Japan

Yehuda Shoenfeld

Israel

Yardena Siegman-Igra

Israel

Eleanor Singer

USA

Dhirendra Narain Sinha

India

Michael Skinner

USA

Tod Sloan

USA

Arjen Slooter

Netherlands

Robert Smith

Canada

Lynne Smith

USA

Yiqing Song

USA

Yong Song

China

Albert Sotto

France

Harold Sox

USA

Nicholas Spencer

UK

Alessio Squassina

Italy

Amanda Staiano

USA

Stephen Stansfeld

UK

David Steel

UK

Norbert Stefan

Germany

Guenther Steger

Austria

Steven Steinhubl

USA

Tim Stockwell

Canada

Jørund Straand

Norway

Tor Strand

Norway

Carolyn Summerbell

UK

Artur Swiergiel

Poland

A. Marcell Szasz

Hungary

Abd Tahrani

UK

Ambrose Talisuna

Kenya

Rajiv Tandon

USA

Yi-Wei Tang

USA

David Tanne

Israel

Linda Tapsell

Australia

Basil Tarlatzis

Greece

Anne Taylor

Australia

Bruce Taylor

Australia

Sophie Testa

Italy

Shakila Thangaratinam

UK

Roger Thomas

Canada

Paul Thompson

USA

Stephen Tong

Australia

Jorg Tost

France

Howard Trachtman

USA

Andrea Tricco

Canada

Shoichiro Tsugane

Japan

Mark Tuszynski

USA

Aage Tverdal

Norway

Reidar Tyssen

Norway

Dirk Ubbink

Netherlands

Esther Udina

Spain

Jaime Uribarri

USA

Dhananjay Vaidya

USA

Eleftherios Vamvakas

USA

Rob van Dam

Singapore

Marianne A.B. van der Sande

Netherlands

Mireille van Poppel

Netherlands

Isabel Varela-Nieto

Spain

Sander Veldhuyzen van Zanten

Canada

Sten Vermund

USA

Alessandro Vespignani

USA

Cecile Viboud

USA

Andrew Vickers

USA

Reinhold Vieth

Canada

Ian Viney

UK

Rüdiger von Kries

Germany

Jeremy Walker

UK

Neff Walker

USA

Sasiwarang Wannamethee

UK

Stuart Watson

UK

Helen Weatherly

UK

Connie Weaver

USA

W Douglas Weaver

USA

Thomas Wellems

USA

Paul Welsh

UK

Lisa White

Thailand

Nicholas John White

Thailand

Will Whiteley

UK

Susan Whiting

Canada

Heather Whitson

USA

Erik Wiemer

Netherlands

Thomas Williams

Kenya

Ira Wilson

USA

Philip Wilson

UK

Elizabeth Winzeler

USA

Federica Wolf

Italy

Evelyn Wong

Australia

Geoff Wong

UK

Vincent Wong

Hong Kong

Nicole Wright

USA

Lin Xu

Hong Kong

Hushan Yang

USA

Patsy Yates

Australia

Bu Yeap

Australia

Neville Yeomans

Australia

Kimberly Yonkers

USA

Bryan Young

Canada

Sera Young

USA

Raul Zamora-Ros

Spain

Marco Zappa

Italy

Maximilian Zeyda

Austria

Guangxiang Zhang

USA

Qi Zhou

Canada

Brian Zikmund-Fisher

USA

Robert Zivadinov

USA