Annual acknowledgement of BMC Medicine manuscript reviewers

Contributing reviewers

The editors of BMC Medicine would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 13 (2015).

John Aaskov

Australia

Rebecca Abbott

Australia

Nicole Achee

USA

Zanfina Ademi

Switzerland

Alessio Aghemo

Italy

Kingsley Agho

Australia

Joseph Ahearn

USA

Golo Ahlenstiel

Australia

Mohamed Azmi Ahmad Hassali

Malaysia

Marco Ajelli

Italy

Emilio Alba

Spain

Urs-Vito Albrecht

Germany

Mohammad Ali

USA

Marjan Alssema

Netherlands

Isabel Amendoeira

Portugal

Annie Anderson

UK

Christina Annunziata

USA

Alessandro Antonelli

Italy

Katerina Antoniou

Greece

Andrew Armstrong

USA

David Armstrong

USA

Michael Ashton

Sweden

Vasilios Athyros

Greece

Titus Augustine

UK

Dagfinn Aune

UK

Kari Auranen

Finland

Philippe Autier

France

Anthony Avery

UK

Angelo Avogaro

Italy

Makoto AYABE

Japan

Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos

Spain

Maciej Banach

Poland

Jesus Banales

Spain

Amitava Banerjee

UK

Emily Banks

Australia

Gustavo Barja

Spain

Quique Bassat

Spain

Imelda Bates

UK

Michael Bauer

Germany

Harry Bear

USA

James Beeson

Australia

Caleb Behrend

USA

Philip Bejon

UK

Francois Beland

Canada

Laurent Belec

France

Himisha Beltran

USA

Merav Ben Natan

Israel

Jacob Berlin

USA

Robert Berry

USA

Abbas Bhuiya

Bangladesh

Zulfiqar Bhutta

Canada

Fausto Biancari

Italy

Peter Biberthaler

Germany

Godfrey Biemba

Zambia

Leslie Biesecker

USA

Colin Binns

Australia

Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai

Italy

Carl Birmingham

Canada

Peter Bitterman

USA

Alan Bittles

Australia

Giovanni Blandino

Italy

Josè Enrique O'Connor Blasco

Spain

Sally Blower

USA

Stefanos Bonovas

Greece

Marilyn Bookbinder

USA

Matthias Borchert

Germany

Soo Borson

USA

Patrick Bossuyt

Netherlands

Emmanuel Bottieau

Belgium

Teun Bousema

UK

Isabelle Boutron

France

Anne Marie Bouvier

France

John Bowman

USA

Katharina Braun

Germany

George Bray

USA

Tara Breslin

USA

Alexandros Briasoulis

USA

Andre Briend

France

Richard Brilli

USA

Louise Brinton

USA

Thomas Brix

Denmark

Marion Broome

USA

Wolfgang Brück

Germany

Martin Bruene

Germany

Chris Bullen

New Zealand

Linda Bullock

USA

Frances Bunn

UK

Pierre-Regis Burgel

France

Jeremy Burton

Canada

Philip Butcher

UK

Monique Cadrin

Canada

Carlos Caldas

UK

Valentina Cambiano

UK

Ian Cameron

Australia

Benjamin Campbell

USA

Diana Campioni

Italy

Havi Carel

UK

Elisabetta Cariani

Italy

Waldemar Carlo

USA

Waldemar Carlo

USA

Edgardo D. Carosella

France

Jason Carroll

UK

Joan Cayla

Spain

Guillaume Chabot-Couture

USA

Marc Chamberlain

USA

Leslie Chan

Canada

Larry Chang

USA

Helena Chang

USA

Saurav Chatterjee

USA

Cynthia Chee

Singapore

Francis Chinegwundoh

UK

Yen-Hung Chow

Taiwan

Gerardo Chowell

USA

Renata Cifkova

Czech Republic

Andrea Cipriani

UK

Daniela Cirillo

Italy

Michael Clark

UK

Nicholas Clement

UK

Stephen Cochi

USA

Ted Cohen

USA

Jan Willem Cohen Tervaert

Netherlands

Vittoria Colizza

France

Clare Collins

Australia

Paul Colson

USA

David Conen

Switzerland

Cristophe Corpechot

France

Alberto Corsini

Italy

Alister Craig

UK

Bart Criel

Belgium

Miroslava Čuperlović-Culf

Canada

Harel Dahari

USA

Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff

Sweden

Ingrid Dahlman

Sweden

Mary D'Alton

USA

Teresa Damush

USA

Janet Dancey

Canada

Lalit Dandona

India

Carrie Daniel MacDougall

USA

Anna-Karin Danielsson

Sweden

Fabrizio D'ascenzo

Italy

Paban Kumar Dash

India

Adil Daud

USA

Ayesha De Costa

Sweden

Jan De Lepeleire

Belgium

Michel de Lorgeril

France

Paola De Rango

Italy

Luc de Witte

Netherlands

Matthew DeCamp

USA

Agnes Dechartres

France

Martin Dedicoat

UK

Justin T Denholm

Australia

Ralph Depalma

USA

Rumona Dickson

UK

Anna Diehl

USA

Roland Diel

Germany

Peter John Diggle

UK

Mary Dixon-Woods

UK

Helen Dolk

UK

Joseph Donnelly

USA

Susan Dorman

USA

David Dowdy

USA

Stephen Duffy

UK

Christine Durand

USA

Helena Earl

UK

Michael Engelgau

USA

Mike English

Kenya

Håkan Eriksson

Sweden

Markus Eszlinger

Germany

Arash Etemadi

USA

Jean-Francois Etter

Switzerland

Victoria Fan

USA

Rui Fang

USA

Yiru Fang

China

Laurent Fauchier

France

Seena Fazel

UK

Ian Fentiman

UK

Peter Ferenci

Austria

Cleusa Ferri

Brazil

Eduardo Ferriolli

Brazil

David Fidock

USA

Suzanne Filteau

UK

Lawrence Fisher

USA

Dale Fisher

Singapore

David Fisman

Canada

Adam Fleischer

USA

Kirsten Fleischmann

USA

Helen Fletcher

UK

Olivia Fletcher

UK

João Fonseca

Portugal

Theodoros Foukakis

Sweden

Anna Fracanzani

Italy

Kenneth Freedland

USA

Matthew Freiberg

USA

Vic Froelicher

USA

Rochelle Fu

USA

Jan Gaertner

Germany

Annemarie Gagnon

Canada

Emmanuela Gakidou

USA

Manoj Gambhir

Australia

Lourdes Garcia

Mexico

Michel Garenne

France

Amit Garg

Canada

Daniel Gaudet

Canada

Colin Geddes

UK

Karen Gelmon

Canada

Steven George

USA

Maureen George

USA

Ruth Gershoni-Baruch

Israel

Davina Ghersi

Australia

Balaram Ghosh

India

Peter Giannoudis

UK

John Gibson

UK

Massimo Girardis

Italy

Alan Girling

UK

John Gladman

UK

Martin Gleave

Canada

Brian Godman

Sweden

Su Golder

UK

Gabriela Gomes

Portugal

Guendalina Graffigna

Italy

Jonathan Grant

UK

Michael Gravett

USA

Darren C Greenwood

UK

Edward Gregg

USA Minor Outlying Islands

Ulla Griffiths

UK

Carlos Grilo

USA

Mitchell Gross

USA

Weihua Guan

USA

Jean-Claude Guédon

Canada

Miguel Gueimonde

Spain

Bruce Guthrie

UK

Balazs Györffy

Hungary

Carl Haasper

Germany

Peter Hajek

UK

Eelko Hak

Netherlands

Andrew Hall

UK

Philip Hannaford

UK

David Hansell

UK

Josh Hanson

Australia

Ubydul Haque

USA

Shamil Haroon

UK

Mark Harris

Australia

Elizabeth Hatch

USA

Phillipa Hay

Australia

Peiman Hematti

USA

Philip Hill

New Zealand

Marie-France Hivert

Canada

Allison Hodge

Australia

Michael Hoffmeister

Germany

Scott Holmberg

USA

Tim Holt

UK

Lotty Hooft

Netherlands

Robert Horsburgh

USA

Thomas House

UK

Allan House

UK

Christopher Howson

USA

Daniela Hozbor

Argentina

Richard Hubbard

UK

David Hui

USA

Carrie Huisingh

USA

Don Husereau

Canada

Lars Hviid

Denmark

Carel IJsselmuiden

Switzerland

Eiichi Ishikawa

Japan

Ken-ichi Ito

Japan

Till Ittermann

Germany

Richard Jabbour

UK

Hansen-Schwartz Jacob

Denmark

Hartmut Jaeschke

USA

Allan Jaffe

USA

Anders Jakobsen

Denmark

Prakash Mohan Jeena

South Africa

Gregor Jemec

Denmark

Prabhat Jha

Canada

Maria A Jimenez-Sousa

Spain

Martin Johansen

Denmark

Søren Paaske Johnsen

Denmark

Pedro Jose

USA

Andrew Jull

New Zealand

S. Patrick Kachur

USA

Louiza Kalokairinou

Belgium

Tatsuo Kanda

Japan

Pekka Kannus

Finland

Harin Karunajeewa

Australia

Monika Kastner

Canada

Pawel Kawalec

Poland

Mary Kawonga

South Africa

Kassoum Kayentao

Mali

Michael P Keane

Ireland

Richard Keefe

USA

William Keenan

USA

David Kelso

USA

Eben Kenah

USA

Gunter Kenis

Netherlands

Hector Keun

UK

Stefan Kiechl

Austria

Gerry Killeen

Tanzania

Hyung Kim

USA

Laurence Kirmayer

Canada

Niranjan Kissoon

Canada

Takanari Kitazono

Japan

Jos Kleijnen

UK

Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch

Netherlands

Martin Kneyber

Netherlands

Gwenan Knight

UK

Martin Koebel

Canada

Amos Korczyn

Israel

Boris Kotchoubey

Germany

Anthony Kovac

USA

Christian Krauth

Germany

Mirjam Kretzschmar

Netherlands

Sanjeev Krishna

UK

Darcy Krueger

USA

Alexander Kulminski

USA

Fred Kummerow

USA

Ralph Kupka

Netherlands

Nathan Kuppermann

USA

Vitaly Kushnir

USA

Oliver Kuß

Germany

George Kyei

USA

Catherine Kyobutungi

Kenya

Dirk Lachenmeier

Germany

Sarah Lamb

UK

Edward Lammer

USA

Tom Lang

USA

Christine Laronga

USA

David Le Couteur

Australia

Peter Lee

UK

Brian Lehmann

USA

Sam Leinster

UK

Jean-Pascal Lemelin

Canada

Isabelle Leparc-Goffart

France

Kieron Leslie

USA

Justin Lessler

USA

Joel Lexchin

Canada

Adolfo Liao

Brazil

Evangelos Liberopoulos

Greece

Eric Lien

USA

Lina Lim

Singapore

Shu-Chun Lin

Taiwan

Benjamin Linas

USA

Marc Lipman

UK

Deborah Little

USA

Peter A. Littlejohns

UK

Li Liu

USA

Andrew Liu

USA

Yoon Kong Loke

UK

Chanthap Lon

Thailand

Joanne Lord

UK

Alison Loren

USA

Catherine Lozupone

USA

Giovanni Lughezzani

Italy

Xianghua Luo

USA

Alan Lyles

USA

Paul Lysaker

USA

Harriet MacMillan

Canada

Iain MacPhee

UK

Matthew Maddocks

UK

Nicola Maffulli

UK

Alan Magill

USA

Kathryn Maitland

UK

Marcin Majka

Poland

Ville-Petteri Makinen

Australia

Elizabeth Manias

Australia

Samuel Mann

USA

Joanne Mantell

USA

Douglas Manuel

Canada

Donatella Marazziti

Italy

Julia Marcus

USA

Paul Marik

USA

Donald Marion

USA

Maurie Markman

USA

Michael Marmura

USA

Louise Marston

UK

Miguel Martinez-Gonzalez

Spain

Wellington Martins

Brazil

Mauri J Marttunen

Finland

Ana Marusic

Croatia

Steven Marwaha

UK

Joseph Massaro

USA

Manjit Matharu

UK

Colin Mathers

Switzerland

Joseph Mathew

India

Dimitrios Matthaiou

Greece

Lawrence Mbuagbaw

Canada

Emma McBryde

Australia

Mary McCarron

Ireland

James McCarthy

Australia

Tim McHugh

UK

Martin McKee

UK

Ann-Marie McLaren

Canada

Candace Mcnaughton

USA

Elizabeth McQuaid

USA

Keith Meadows

UK

Didier Ménard

Cambodia

Stewart Mercer

UK

Tammy Meyers

South Africa

Saskia Middeldorp

Netherlands

David Miles

UK

Michael Miller

USA

Edward Mills

Canada

Carole Mitnick

USA

David Moher

Canada

Ben Mol

Australia

Marc Molendijk

Netherlands

Malcolm Edward Molyneux

Malawi

Wuelton Monteiro

Brazil

Filippo Montemurro

Italy

Ann Moormann

USA

Andrew Moran

USA

Larry Moreland

USA

Victor Moreno

Spain

John Morgan

USA

Margaret Morris

Australia

José María Mostaza

Spain

Shahrul Mt-Isa

UK

Zindoga Mukandavire

UK

Helen Murphy

UK

Paola Muti

USA

Kurt Naber

Germany

Sharon Nachman

USA

VasI Naganathan

Australia

Harish Nair

UK

Louise Nash

Australia

Florian Naudet

France

E Andrea Nelson

UK

Patrick Neven

Belgium

Anthony Newall

Australia

Mark Nicol

South Africa

Hiroshi Nishiura

Japan

Alessandro Nobili

Italy

Abdisalan Noor

Kenya

Ole Norheim

Norway

Alexis Nzila

Saudi Arabia

Jeremy Oats

Australia

Pat O'Campo

Canada

Daniel O'Connor

Australia

William Oh

USA

Kerstin M. Oltmanns

Germany

Eng Eong Ooi

Singapore

Walter Orenstein

USA

Ronan O'Toole

Australia

Jan Erik Otterstad

Norway

Hans Overgaard

Norway

Raj Padwal

Canada

Chi Pae

North Korea

Claire Palles

UK

Ankur Pandya

USA

Vassilios Papalois

UK

Carmine Pariante

UK

Jigisha Patel

UK

Andrew Patterson

USA

Friedemann Paul

Germany

Martha Payne

USA

Chris Pemberton

New Zealand

Guangyong Peng

USA

Robert Perlman

USA

Kerstin Persson Waye

Sweden

Jaime Peters

UK

Stefan Peterson

Sweden

Daniel Petrovic

Slovenia

Ronald Pfeiffer

USA

Siobhan Phillips

USA

Hilary Pinnock

UK

Mario Pirisi

Italy

Loris Pironi

Italy

Charlotta Pisinger

Denmark

Christopher Plowe

USA

Venerino Poletti

Italy

Riccardo Polosa

Italy

Phillippa Poole

New Zealand

Maarten Postma

Netherlands

Michael Postow

USA

Tatjana Potpara

Serbia

Peter Preiser

Singapore

Martin Preisig

Switzerland

George Prendergast

USA

Gareth Pryce

UK

Jude Przyborski

Germany

Carlo Pucillo

Italy

Chamindie Punyadeera

Australia

Lajos Pusztai

USA

Efisio Puxeddu

Italy

James Raftery

UK

Daniel Raftery

USA

Michael Ramharter

Germany

Padmanabhan Ramnarayan

UK

Nigel Rawson

USA

Prem-Veer Reddy

USA

Nancy Redeker

USA

Sally Redman

Australia

Andrew Rees

Austria

Juergen Rehm

Canada

Gregor Reid

Canada

Sirimon Reutrakul

Thailand

Giovanni Rezza

Italy

Anthony Rhodes

Malaysia

Andrew Rhodes

UK

Todd Richards

USA

Kristin Riekert

USA

Louise Robinson

UK

Kenneth Rockwood

Canada

Mauricio Rodrigues

Brazil

Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo

Spain

Laura Rogers

USA

Monique Roobol

Netherlands

Ivan O. Rosas

USA

Amanda Ross

Switzerland

Jean Pierre Routy

Canada

Laurence Rubenstein

USA

Everardo Saad

Brazil

Caroline Sabin

UK

Amirhossein Sahebkar

Iran

Gil Salles

Brazil

Emilia Salvadori

Italy

Carole Samango-Sprouse

USA

Jeeva Sankar

India

Valéria Saraceni

Brazil

Jerome Sarris

Australia

Sivasankaran Sashidharan

UK

Naveed Sattar

UK

Robert Sauerwein

Netherlands

John Saxton

UK

Roberta Scherer

USA

Marjanka Schmidt

Netherlands

John Schneider

USA

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Denmark

Mary Schooling

Hong Kong

Helmut Schröder

Spain

Marieke Schuurmans

Netherlands

Ian Scott

Australia

Paola Sebastiani

USA

Yoshihiko Seino

Japan

Lorenzo Sempere

USA

Jon Shaffer

UK

Dennis Shanks

Australia

Priyanka Sharma

USA

Neil Shear

Canada

Lauren Sherar

UK

Xiangyang Shi

China

Yufei Shi

Saudi Arabia

Kenji Shibuya

Japan

Aesun Shin

Korea

Steffen T Simon

Germany

Julie Simpson

Australia

Jasvinder Singh

USA

Anushua Sinha

USA

Melissa Southey

Australia

Martin Spahn

Switzerland

Joseph Sparano

USA

Claudia Spies

Germany

Robert Steele

UK

Benjamin Steinberg

USA

Karen Steindorf

Germany

Steven Steinhubl

USA

Andy Stergachis

USA

Rob Stockley

UK

Tim Stockwell

Canada

Trevor Stone

UK

Marie-Pierre St-Onge

USA

Sharon Straus

Canada

Elizabeth Streicher

South Africa

Karien Stronks

Netherlands

Rodney Stuck

USA

Erich Sturgis

USA

David Sullivan

Australia

Richard Sullivan

UK

David Sullivan

USA

Gerhard Sundborn

New Zealand

Ali Sunyaev

Germany

Mark Sussman

USA

Manikkam Suthanthiran

USA

Dallas Swendeman

USA

Jeffrey Swigris

USA

Matthew Sydes

UK

Ambrose Talisuna

Kenya

Shenglan Tang

USA

Alessandra Tavani

Italy

Antonio Teixeira

Brazil

Andrew Teodorczuk

UK

Gareth Thomas

UK

David Thomas

USA

Graham Thomas

USA

Mangesh Thorat

UK

Adam Timmis

UK

Francisco Tinahones

Spain

Richard Titball

UK

Nevins Todd

USA

Oyewale Tomori

Nigeria

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Italy

Carlos Tovilla-Zárate

Mexico

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Germany

Kelton P Tremellen

Australia

François Treussart

France

Andrea Tricco

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Irene Tuffrey-Wijne

UK

Sheila Turner

UK

Dirk Ubbink

Netherlands

John Urquhart

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Clarissa Valim

USA

Wim Van Den Heuvel

Netherlands

Jenny Van Der Steen

Netherlands

Tjip Van Der Werf

Netherlands

Daniëlle Van Der Windt

UK

Rogier Van Doorn

Vietnam

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Netherlands

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USA

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Italy

Per Olav Vandvik

Norway

Per Vandvik

Norway

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Australia

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Netherlands

Sten Vermund

USA

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Belgium

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USA

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Anne Vik

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Joan Vilalta-Franch

Spain

Reina Villareal

USA

Jose Vina

Spain

Dietrich von Rosen

Sweden

Lorenz von Seidlein

UK

Edward Walker

USA

Lance Waller

USA

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USA

Eugene Haydn Walters

Australia

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USA

Don Weiss

USA

Scott Weiss

USA

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Denmark

Robert Welch

USA

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UK

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Denmark

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USA

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Singapore

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Germany

Diana Wilkie

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Robert Wilkinson

UK

Karen Willard-Gallo

Belgium

Thomas Williams

Kenya

Christopher Williams

UK

Jennie A C Wilson

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UK

Denise Wolf

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Paul Wolters

USA

Chansuda Wongsrichanalai

Thailand

Patrick CY Woo

Hong Kong

Junjie Xiao

China

Mingzhao Xing

USA

Y. Tony Yang

USA

Patsy Yates

Australia

Ding-Wei Ye

China

Bu Yeap

Australia

Neville Yeomans

Australia

Linwah Yip

USA

Joshua Yukich

USA

Basia Zaba

UK

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USA

Marco Zappa

Italy

Maximilian Zeyda

Austria

Yaobi Zhang

Senegal

George Zhang

USA

Qi Zhou

Canada

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USA

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Bernard Zonnenberg

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Manuel Zorzi

Italy

Maria Victoria Zunzunegui

Canada