BMC Surgery reviewer acknowledgement, 2014

Reviewer acknowledgement

The editors of BMC Surgery would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed their time to the journal in Volume 14 (2014).

Contributing reviewers

Tamer Abdelbaki

Egypt

Thad Abrams

USA

Walid Abu Arab

Canada

Tomohiro Adachi

Japan

Mohsen Adib-Hajbaghery

Iran

Sunil Agarwal

India

Rajesh Aggarwal

United Kingdom

Magnus Ågren

Denmark

Ferdinando Agresta

Italy

Annette B. Ahrberg

Germany

Clemens Aigner

Austria

Sami Akbulut

Turkey

Melih Akinci

Turkey

Luca Antonio Aldrighetti

Italy

Marco Allaix

Italy

William Allum

United Kingdom

Emad Aly

United Kingdom

Roland Andersson

Sweden

Martin Angele

Germany

Stavros Antoniou

Greece

Saif Anwaruddin

USA

Theerachai Apivatthakakul

Thailand

Asif Ayaz

India

Egemen Ayhan

Turkey

Nather Aziz

Singapore

Marcus Bahra

Germany

Seung Hyuk Baik

South Korea

Gian Luca Baiocchi

Italy

Andreas Bakoyiannis

Greece

Carlo Banfi

Switzerland

Gordon Bannister

United Kingdom

Nikolaos Barbetakis

Greece

Louise Barbier

France

Irene Bargellini

Italy

Neal Barshes

USA

Giacomo Batignani

Italy

Hasan Batirel

Turkey

Dirk Bausch

Germany

Jens Bedke

Germany

Marcelo Beltran

Chile

Christophe Berney

Australia

Frederik Berrevoet

Belgium

Samer Bessa

Egypt

Ashish Bhalla

India

Deepraj Bhandarkar

India

Roland Biber

Germany

Franck Billmann

Germany

Marcel Binnebosel

Germany

Desmond Birkett

USA

Alessandro Boellis

Italy

Marja Boermeester

Netherlands

Stefano Bogliolo

Italy

Therezia Bokor

Germany

Patrick Boland

USA

Giuseppe Borzellino

Italy

Sotirios Botaitis

Greece

Sergiu Botolin

USA

Mahdi Bouassida

Tunisia

Michael Brauckhoff

Norway

Marius Bredell

Switzerland

Stefan Breitenstein

Switzerland

Brandon Broome

USA

Merribeth Bruntz

USA

Jacek Budzynski

Poland

Orhan Bulut

Denmark

Jakob Burcharth

Denmark

Neslihan Cabioglu

Turkey

Michael Calderwood

USA

Fabio Campanile

Italy

Giampiero Capobianco

Italy

Fernando Carbonell-Tatay

Spain

Cédric Carrié

France

Ross Carruthers

United Kingdom

Lucas Castro Alves

Brazil

Juan Cata

USA

Fausto Catena

Italy

Abigail Caudle

USA

Marco Ceresoli

Italy

Hakan Ceyran

Turkey

Nohra Chalouhi

USA

Shi-Min Chang

China

Grigoris Chatzimavroudis

Greece

Gar-Yang Chau

Taiwan

Yen-Lin Chen

Taiwan

Michael Chen

Taiwan

Wei Chen

China

Yong-Long Chi

China

Jy Ming Chiang

Taiwan

Sonja Chiappetta

Germany

Vitoon Chinswangwatanakul

Thailand

Charing Chong

Hong Kong

Giovanni Conzo

Italy

Riccardo Corbetta

Italy

Andrea Saverio Corriero

Italy

Wilson Costa

Brazil

Marie Crandall

USA

Derly Cuellar

USA

Steven Cunningham

USA

Adrien Daigeler

Germany

Piergiorgio Danelli

Italy

Marcioi De Moraes

Brazil

Belinda De Simone

Italy

Faramarz Dehghani

Germany

Ismail Demiryilmaz

Turkey

Timm Denecke

Germany

Jacopo Desiderio

Italy

Andrew Deynichenko

Ukraine

Salomone Di Saverio

Italy

Gaetano Di Vita

Italy

Marius Distler

Germany

Cornelia Dotzenrath

Germany

Michael Douek

United Kingdom

Jianjun Du

China

Xavier Ducrocq

France

Ender Dulundu

Turkey

Traian Dumitrascu

Romania

Gülsüm Özlem Elpek

Turkey

Tobias Else

Germany

Xiaoen Hua

China

Itaru Endo

Japan

Giorgio Ercolani

Italy

Mert Erkan

Germany

Unal Erkorkmaz

Turkey

Eloy Espin

Spain

Khashayar Fakhrian

Germany

Mazda Farshad

Switzerland

Denis Fedorov

Ukraine

Israel Fernandez-Pineda

Spain

Pedro Ferreira

Portugal

Enrico Fiori

Italy

Jochen Franke

Germany

Oren Fruchter

Israel

Sean Galvin

Australia

Shu-Guang Gao

China

Cengiz Gebitekin

Turkey

Ian Geh

United Kingdom

Dechun Geng

China

Pascal Gervaz

Switzerland

Wagih Ghnnam

Egypt

Peter Giannoudis

United Kingdom

Luca Gianotti

Italy

Sonja Gillen

Germany

Montori Giulia

Italy

Gabriel Glockzin

Germany

Stanislaw Gluszek

Poland

Dhanny Gomez

United Kingdom

Jackson A. Gondim

Brazil

Shouping Gong

China

Matthias Goos

Germany

Ajeet Gordhan

USA

Fred Gordon

USA

Rosalie Grivell

Australia

Stephen Grobmyer

USA

Jodok Matthias Grueneberger

Germany

Dirk Grünhagen

Netherlands

Salvatore Gruttadauria

Italy

Oleg Gulko

Ukraine

Ali Guner

Turkey

Subhash Gupta

India

Rajesh Gupta

India

Bora Gurer

Turkey

Thilo Hackert

Germany

David Hak

USA

Niels Hammer

Germany

Eric Mark Hammerberg

USA

Jiandong Hao

USA

Jonathan Hardman

United Kingdom

Wolfgang Hartschuh

Germany

Hassan Hassan

USA

Arvid Steinar Haugen

Norway

Alexander Hemprich

Germany

Ralf Henkelmann

Germany

Lars Henningsohn

Sweden

Benoit Herbert

USA

Noriyuki Hirahara

Japan

Andreas Höch

Germany

Jens Hoeppner

Germany

Werner Hohenberger

Germany

Mathias Hoiczyk

Germany

Peter Hollaus

Germany

Ulrich Theodor Hopt

Germany

Zhiyong Hou

China

Yoshiyuki Hoya

Japan

Karel WE Hulsewe

Netherlands

Igors Iesalnieks

Germany

Abdolmajid Iloon Kashkouli

Iran

Daniela Ionescu

Romania

Mitsuru Ishizuka

Japan

Hiroaki Ito

Japan

Kimieru Ito

Japan

Shinji Itoh

Japan

Usman Jaffer

United Kingdom

Sandeep Jain

India

Priyadarshan Jategaonkar

India

Kuo-Shyang Jeng

Taiwan

Jack Jia

China

Jorge Jiménez Cruz

Germany

George Jour

USA

Kethy Jules-elysee

USA

Francis Juthier

France

Daniel Kaemmerer

Germany

Sahin N Kahramanca

Turkey

Adrien Kaladji

France

Erdinc Kamer

Turkey

Kenitiro Kaneko

Japan

Oguz Karahan

Turkey

Cemşit Karakurt

Turkey

Samuel Andreas Käser

Germany

Ozgur Kemik

Turkey

Jeong Han Kim

South Korea

Ji Wan Kim

South Korea

Eugene Kim

USA

Young-Woo Kim

South Korea

Hirokazu Kiyozaki

Japan

Christian Daniel Klink

Germany

Akira Kobayashi

Japan

Kiyotaka Kohshi

Japan

Arto Kokkola

Finland

Eun-jung Kong

South Korea

Manousos Konstadoulakis

Greece

Kostiantyn Kopchak

Ukraine

George Kouvelos

Greece

Bela Kubat

Netherlands

Henry Mark Kuerer

USA

Simon Kuesters

Germany

Vinay Kumaran

India

Anita Kurmann

Switzerland

Miltiadis Lalountas

Greece

Vincent Lam

Australia

Felix Langer

Austria

Hryhoriy Lapshyn

Germany

Bashir Laway

India

Morgan LE Guen

France

Dong Hoon Lee

South Korea

Maw-Sheng Lee

Taiwan

Han Hong Lee

South Korea

Woo Jung Lee

South Korea

Kuno Lehmann

Switzerland

Ray Leveillee

USA

François L’Hériteau

France

Laura Lorenzon

Italy

Tatiana Lubenets

Ukraine

David Lumenta

Austria

Xiaofeng Lv

China

Vladimir Lyadov

Russian Federation

Giovanni Maconi

Italy

Antonio Macrì

Italy

Almantas Maleckas

Lithuania

Luigi Marano

Italy

Rafik Margaryan

Italy

Goran Marjanovic

Germany

Stephen Mark

New Zealand

Lukas Marti

Switzerland

Shigeki Matsubara

Japan

Ippei Matsumoto

Japan

Blandine Maurel

France

Amine Mazine

Canada

Craig McIlhenny

United Kingdom

Ruth McKee

United Kingdom

Sarah McLaughlin

USA

Ari N. Meguerditchian

Canada

Anastasia Mentessidou

Greece

Aziz Merchant

USA

Juerg Metzger

Switzerland

Yutaka Midorikawa

Japan

Radu Mihai

United Kingdom

Marco Milone

Italy

Aytan Miranda Sipahi

Brazil

Petros Mirilas

USA

Yevgen Miroshnychenko

Ukraine

Suhail Mithani

USA

Teruaki Mizobuchi

Japan

Irwin Mohan

Australia

Yasuhiko Mohri

Japan

Michele Molinari

Canada

Yvonne Mondorf

Germany

Francisco L Moreno Martinez

Cuba

Martin Mortazavi

USA

Ahmet Yaser Muslumanoglu

Turkey

Miki Nagao

Japan

Toru Nagao

Japan

Myura Nagendran

United Kingdom

Takeshi Naitoh

Japan

Yoshifumi Nakao

Japan

Margherita Nannini

Italy

Steven Narod

Canada

Atsushi Nashimoto

Japan

Christian Andreas Nebiker

Switzerland

Valentin Neuhaus

Switzerland

Michael Norwood

United Kingdom

Alexander Novotny

Germany

Dagmar Oberhofer

Croatia

Jooyoung Oh

South Korea

Lawrence Okiror

United Kingdom

Peter O'Leary

Ireland

Terje Osnes

Norway

Hannu Paajanen

Finland

Andrea Pakula

USA

Norbert Pallua

Germany

Stefano Palmucci

Italy

Basilios Papaziogas

Greece

Ji Hoon Park

South Korea

Jeong Yoon Park

South Korea

Vani Parmar

India

Jennifer Paruch

USA

Marta Pascual

Spain

Andrea Patrizi

France

Milos Pavlovic

Slovenia

Florentia Peintinger

Austria

Erman Pektok

Turkey

Gianluca Pellino

Italy

Nadia Peparini

Italy

Tirso Perez-Medina

Spain

Giuseppe Piccinni

Italy

Laurentiu Pirtea

Romania

John Plukker

Netherlands

Elia Poiasina

Italy

Daniel Prevedello

USA

Pablo Priego

Spain

Borja Quiroga

Spain

Juan C Quispe

USA

Nikolina Radulovich

Canada

Marco Raffaelli

Italy

Beate Rau

Germany

Stefano Rausei

Italy

Asnat Raziel

Israel

Matthias Reeh

Germany

Joachim Reibetanz

Germany

Philipp Renner

Germany

Mehmet Reyhan

Turkey

Paul RISS

Austria

Andreas J. Roth

Germany

Andres Mariano Rubiano Escobar

Colombia

Muhammad Saaiq

Pakistan

Anand Sachithanandan

Malaysia

Babak Saedi

Iran

Mauro Salizzoni

Italy

Paulina Salminen

Finland

Ozgur Samancilar

Turkey

Mohamed Samra

Egypt

Andrés Sánchez-Pernaute

Spain

Gabriel Sandblom

Sweden

Massimo Sartelli

Italy

Kirsten Sasaki

USA

Atsushi Sasaki

Japan

Jens Schittenhelm

Germany

Rick Schneider

Germany

Paulus Schurr

Germany

Andreas Seim

Norway

Raffaele Serra

Italy

Giuseppe Filiberto Serraino

Italy

Piergiorgio Settembrini

Italy

Yan-Shen Shan

Taiwan

Aali Sheen

United Kingdom

Minxin Shi

China

Chikashi Shibata

Japan

ChungLiang Shih

Taiwan

Satoshi Shiono

Japan

Robert Siegel

Germany

Sumit Sinha

India

Silvia Siqueira

Brazil

Anatolii Skums

Ukraine

Nicholas Slater

Netherlands

Matthew Smith

United Kingdom

Jonathan Sobocinski

France

Salvatore Sorrenti

Italy

Michael Sosin

USA

Cristiano Spadaccio

Belgium

Constantine Spanos

Greece

Ulrich Spiegl

Germany

Kai Sprengel

Switzerland

Andrew Sprowson

United Kingdom

Michael Stenger

Denmark

Dominika Stygar

Poland

Juan Manuel Suarez Grau

Spain

Hasan Sunar

Turkey

Andrew Swift

United Kingdom

Oleg Symonov

Ukraine

Tomasz Szewczyk

Poland

Yuji Tachimori

Japan

Frank Tacke

Germany

Arash Taheri

USA

Hidenori Takahashi

Japan

Shinsuke Takeno

Japan

Mohammad Talebpour

Iran

Dinesh Talwar

United Kingdom

Carol Tan

United Kingdom

Kuniya Tanaka

Japan

Mikhail Tavobilov

Russian Federation

Konstantinos Tepetes

Greece

Yuji Toiyama

Japan

Aybala Tongut

Turkey

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Greece

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USA

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Hong Kong

Akif Turna

Turkey

Garth Utter

USA

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USA

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Romania

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Iran

Ali Veral

Turkey

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Hungary

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Netherlands

Nereo Vettoretto

Italy

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India

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United Kingdom

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Italy

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USA

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Germany

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Switzerland

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Switzerland

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Germany

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Germany

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USA

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Germany

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USA

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China

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China

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China

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Ukraine