BMC Surgery reviewer acknowledgement, 2015

Contributing reviewers

The editors of BMC Surgery would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed their time to the journal in Volume 15 (2015).

Thad Abrams

USA

Ahmed Abu-Zaid

Saudi Arabia

Bas Aerts

Netherlands

Cheguevara Afaneh

USA

Ayman Agha

Germany

Riaz Agha

United Kingdom

Ferdinando Agresta

Italy

Tolga Aksu

Turkey

Jason Akulian

USA

Ali Al Kaissi

Austria

Sami Alasari

Republic of Korea

Olusegun Alatise

Nigeria

Luca Antonio Aldrighetti

Italy

Mario Alessiani

Italy

Marco Allaix

Italy

Fernando Andrés Alvarez

Argentina

Emad Aly

United Kingdom

Rahul Anand

USA

Roland Andersson

Sweden

Kristoffer Andresen

Denmark

Hagen Andruszkow

Germany

Andrea Angelini

Italy

Stefano Angioni

Italy

Amedeo Anselmi

France

Stavros Antoniou

Germany

Luca Arru

Luxembourg

Nuhi Arslani

Slovenia

Avo Artinyan

USA

Osman Asıcıoglu

Turkey

Javier Ata-Ali

Spain

Sam Atallah

USA

Szijarto Attila

Hungary

Egemen Ayhan

Turkey

Berk Aykut

Germany

Berk Aykut

Germany

Dan Azagury

USA

Negar Azarpira

Iran

Seung Hyuk Baik

Republic of Korea

Nicolaas A Bakker

Netherlands

Andreas Bakoyiannis

Greece

Ugur Bal

Turkey

Chad Ball

Canada

Gordon Bannister

United Kingdom

Vickie Baracos

Canada

Louise Barbier

France

Sorin Traian Barbu

Romania

Riyaz Bashir

USA

Giacomo Batignani

Italy

Hasan Batirel

Turkey

Dirk Bausch

Germany

Kemal Behzatoglu

Turkeuy

Guido Beldi

Switzerland

Christophe Berney

Australia

Emilio Bertani

Italy

Samer Saad Bessa

Egypt

Roland Biber

Germany

Christoph Birkenmaier

United Kingdom

Christopher Bliemel

Germany

Joerg Boehme

Germany

Marja Boermeester

Netherlands

Ugo Boggi

Italy

Therezia Bokor

Germany

Martin Bolli

Switzerland

Elfriede Bollschweiler

Germany

Luigi Bonavina

Italy

Giuseppe Borzellino

Italy

Sotirios Botaitis

Greece

Florin Botea

Romania

Ismail Bouhout

Canada

Mehmet Abdussamet Bozkurt

Turkey

Federico Bozzetti

Italy

Stefan Breitenstein

Switzerland

Guy Brock

USA

Kristoffer W. Brudvik

Norway

Jacek Budzynski

Poland

Laura Buggio

Italy

Orhan Bulut

Denmark

Matthew Burg

USA

Mario Cabraja

Germany

Ufuk Cagirici

Turkey

Pietro Giorgio CALO

Italy

Fabio Cesare Campanile

Italy

Silvestro Canonico

Italy

Cédric Carrié

France

Abigail Caudle

USA

Giuseppe Cavallaro

Italy

Arif Burak Cekic

Turkey

Muazez Cevik

Turkey

Hoi-Hung Chan

Taiwan

Nikhil Chanani

USA

Edward Chang

USA

Hyun Chang

Republic of Korea

Hak Chang

Republic of Korea

Chan Yoon Cheah

Australia

Gregory Cherr

USA

Seungho Choi

Republic of Korea

Yoon Young Choi

Republic of Korea

Silky Chotai

Republic of Korea

Tam-Lin Chow

Hong Kong

Benjamin Chung

USA

Chun Kee Chung

Republic of Korea

Andrea Ciarrocchi

Italy

Yasemin Benderli Cihan

Turkey

Roberto Cirocchi

Italy

Matteo Commessatti

Italy

Giovanni Conzo

Italy

Daniele Coraci

Italy

Jose Costa-Maia

Portugal

Hsu Chiao-Po

Taiwan

Alessandro Crestani

Italy

Derly Cuellar

USA

Steven Cunningham

USA

Adrien Daigeler

Germany

Luca Dalla Paola

Italy

Maurits De Brauw

Netherlands

Maurizio De Palma

Italy

Martin de Santibañes

Argentina

Marco Del Chiaro

Sweden

Gianmattia del Genio

Italy

Aslan Demir

Turkey

Salil Deo

USA

Jacopo Desiderio

Italy

Salomone Di Saverio

Italy

Attilio Di Spiezio Sardo

Italy

Michael Diamond

USA

Johannes W. Dietrich

Germany

Ali Djalilian

USA

Bogdan Dorobantu

Romania

Cornelia Dotzenrath

Germany

Richard Douard

France

Michael Douek

United Kingdom

Traian Dumitrascu

Romania

Soumitra Eachempati

USA

Eleni Efremidou

Greece

Raimund Erbel

Germany

Francisco Escribano-Sotos

Spain

Christian Ewald

Germany

Rene Fahrner

Germany

Ibrahim Fakhr

Egypt

Wen-Liang Fang

Taiwan

Jodok Matthias Fink

Germany

Marco Fisichella

USA

Peter Fu

Taiwan

Shunjun Fu

China

Ryoji Fukushima

Japan

Patrick Gahr

Germany

Sivakumar Gananadha

Australia

Gurpreet Gandhoke

USA

Sandrö Gerli

Italy

Clemens Gerstenkorn

Germany

Javier Gil

Spain

Francesco Givigliano

Italy

Erkan Gökçe

Turkey

Allan Gottschalk

USA

Damien Grinsell

Australia

Christian Grommes

USA

Sebastien Guigard

France

Ali Guner

Turkey

Bulent Gunlusoy

Turkey

Shigong Guo

United Kingdom

Subhash Gupta

India

Paul Gurbel

USA

Samir Haddad

Saudi Arabia

Dingjun Hao

China

Jiandong Hao

USA

Sheng-Po Hao

Taiwan

Robert Hennings

Germany

Mitchell Henry

USA

Pierre Hepp

Germany

Fernando Herbella

Brazil

Benoit Herbert

USA

Michael Hermann

Austria

Daniel Hernández-Vaquero

Spain

Markus Hess

Germany

Andrew Hill

New Zealand

Martin Hoffmann

Germany

Alexander Hofmann

Germany

Joerg Holstein

Germany

Philipp Holzner

Germany

Hisanaga Horie

Japan

Philip Hormbrey

United Kingdom

Allard J. F. Hosman

Netherlands

Saeid Hosseini

Iran

Chi-Hsun Hsieh

Taiwan

Ching-Hua Hsieh

Taiwan

Yingqi Hua

China

Chang-Ming Huang

China

Hongzhang Huang

China

Line Hupfeld

Denmark

Igors Iesalnieks

Germany

Eva Intagliata

Italy

Francesco Inzirillo

Italy

Kimieru Ito

Japan

Eyal Itshayek

Israel

Domenico Rosario Osario Iusco

Italy

Hrvoje Ivekovic

Croatia

Tal Jacobson

Australia

Sunil Jagtap

India

Thorsten Jentzsch

Switzerland

Joon Jeong

Republic of Korea

Kevin Jones

USA

George Jour

USA

Ali Kabir

Iran

Erdinc Kamer

Turkey

Guenter Kampf

Germany

Hyun Kang

Republic of Korea

Matthias Kapischke

Germany

Mustafa Kaplanoglu

Turkey

Takahiro Karasaki

Japan

Manish Kasliwal

USA

Dezso Katalin

Hungary

Tatsuki Kataoka

Japan

Iraklis Katsoulis

Greece

Naresh Kaul

Oman

Masahiko Kawaguchi

Japan

Khandkar Ali Kawsar

United Kingdom

Oguz Kayiran

Turkey

Tobias Keck

Germany

Michael Kelly

Australia

Michael Kelly

Australia

Andrii Khomiak

Ukraine

Alireza Khoshnevisan

Iran

Ji Wan Kim

Republic of Korea

Wook Kim

Republic of Korea

Bong-Wan Kim

Republic of Korea

Heidrun Kjellberg

Sweden

Angelos Kolias

United Kingdom

Attila Kollàr

Switzerland

Kostiantyn Kopchak

Ukraine

Linetta Koppert

Netherlands

Peter-Martin Krarup

Denmark

Avdyl Krasniqi

Kosovo

Lukas Kreienbühl

Switzerland

Ziad Kronfol

Qatar

Naoshi Kubo

Japan

Simon Kuesters

Germany

David Kurland

USA

Andrea Kwa

Singapore

Gerold Labek

Austria

Sean Langenfeld

USA

Hryhoriy Lapshyn

Germany

Indu Lata

India

Weichen Lee

Taiwan

I. Michael Leitman

USA

Krzysztof Letachowicz

Poland

Chuang-Chi Liaw

Taiwan

Mario Lima

Italy

John Lipham

USA

Jeffrey Lisiecki

USA

Andrew Liss

USA

Charles Loh

United Kingdom

Heinz Lohrer

Germany

Kerstin Lorenz

USA

Laura Lorenzon

Italy

Balazs Lorincz

Germany

Tatiana Lubenets

Ukraine

Vladimir Lyadov

Russian Federation

Léon Maggiori

France

Masatoshi Makuuchi

Japan

Christopher Mantyh

USA

Glen Manzano

USA

Alessandra Marano

Italy

Luigi Marano

Italy

Lukas Marti

Switzerland

Brook Martin

USA

Alfonso Martínez-Nova

Spain

Ippei Matsumoto

Japan

Sarah McLaughlin

USA

Aziz Merchant

USA

Juerg Metzger

Switzerland

Arkadiusz Miernik

Germany

Eric Mirallié

France

Yevgen Miroshnychenko

Ukraine

Shimpei Miyamoto

Japan

Nor Azlin Mohamed Ismail

Malaysia

Michele Molinari

Canada

Edward Monaco

USA

Hideo Morioka

Japan

Sei-ichiro Motegi

Japan

Kanchan Mukherjee

India

Ashok Muniappan

USA

Matthew Mutch

USA

Ahmed Nada

Egypt

Satoshi Nagano

Japan

Toru Nagao

Japan

Satish Nair

India

Joseph Naoum

Lebanon

Narendra Nathoo

USA

Hakan Nazik

Turkey

Giuseppe Nigri

Italy

Hiroaki Niitsu

Japan

Bengt Novik

Sweden

Rumana Omar

United Kingdom

Tomofumi Osako

Japan

Sylvia Otto

Germany

Yaşar Ozdenkaya

Turkey

Alessandro Palladino

Italy

Stefano Palmucci

Italy

Nikolaos Pandis

Switzerland

Vani Parmar

India

Cem Kaan Parsak

Turkey

Andrea Patrizi

France

Gianluca Pellino

Italy

Jean Marc Perarnau

France

Mate Petricevic

Croatia

Niccolo Petrucciani

Italy

Alexander Petter-Puchner

Austria

Andrea Polistena

Italy

Constantinus Politis

Belgium

Hans-Christian Pommergaard

Denmark

Daniele Poole

Italy

Peter Prodinger

United Kingdom

Guixing Qiu

China

Borja Quiroga

Spain

Muthukumaran Rangarajan

India

Mohammad-Reza Rasouli

Iran

Vidya Rattan

India

Stefano Rausei

Italy

Geoffrey Roberts

United Kingdom

Eric Roeland

USA

Ulrich Ronellenfitsch

Germany

Robert Roses

USA

Giuseppe Rossi

United Kingdom

Andreas Arendtsen Rostved

Denmark

John Scott Roth

USA

Antonino Rubino

Italy

Shi Rui

China

Giorgio Ivan Russo

Italy

Muhammad Saaiq

Pakistan

Aly Saber

Egypt

Carlo Saccardi

Italy

Babak Saedi

Iran

Rashmi Salhotra

India

Ozgur Samancilar

Turkey

Gabriel Sandblom

Sweden

Virender Sangwan

India

Massimo Sartelli

Italy

Baris Saylam

Turkey

Oliver Schindler

United Kingdom

Anja Schmitt

Switzerland

John Scolaro

USA

Jonathan Sembrano

USA

Raffaele Serra

Italy

Drazen Servis

Germany

Yasuyuki Seto

Japan

Bakiah Shaharuddin

United Kingdom

Samad Shams Yahdati

Iran

Mayur Sharma

USA

Manish Sharma

India

Aali Sheen

United Kingdom

Ehab Shiban

Germany

Gianfranco Silecchia

Italy

Roger K.J. Simmermacher

Netherlands

Shashideep Singhal

USA

Rajeev Sinha

India

Anatolii Skums

Ukraine

Mikael Sodergren

United Kingdom

Mario Solej

Italy

Kyo Young Song

Republic of Korea

Carlos Souza

Brazil

Sanket Srinivasa

New Zealand

Daniel C Steinemann

Switzerland

Antonio Sterpetti

Italy

Arne Streitbuerger

Germany

Oliver Strobel

Germany

Jonas Strömberg

Sweden

Juan Manuel Suarez Grau

Spain

Francis Sutherland

Canada

Shugo Suzuki

Japan

Takahisa Suzuki

Japan

Dimitrios Symeonidis

Greece

Tomasz Szewczyk

Poland

Masahiro Takada

Japan

Eiji Tanaka

Japan

Judith Tanner

United Kingdom

Ozgur Tanriverdi

Turkey

Francesco Tartaglia

Italy

Hirotaka Tashiro

Japan

Mikhail Tavobilov

Russian Federation

Talar Tejirian

USA

Mallika Tewari

India

Jan Theopold

Germany

Fuzhou Tian

China

Eric Tjwa

Netherlands

Salvatore Tolone

Italy

Valeria Tonini

Italy

Ana Torres

Spain

Ümran Toru

Turkey

Mark Trombetta

USA

Stefan Tudor

Romania

Togas Tulandi

Canada

Akif Turna

Turkey

Marcel Twickler

Belgium

Oleksandre Tyvonchuk

Ukraine

Hakki Uzun

Turkey

Antonio Valezi

Brazil

Richard van Hillegersberg

Netherlands

Jos Jam van Raay

Netherlands

Henk van Santbrink

Netherlands

Aditya Vedantam

USA

Tomaz Velnar

Slovenia

Kalyana Veluvolu

Public of Korea

Jon Ver Halen

USA

Nereo Vettoretto

Italy

Brendan Visser

USA

Nikola Vladov

Bulgaria

Rajeev Vohra

India

Kajetan von Eckardstein

Germany

Monique Margaretha Jozefa Walenkamp

Netherlands

Chuanshun Wang

China

Daorong Wang

China

Jian Wang

China

Deshen Wang

China

Atsushi Watanabe

Japan

Hongbo Wei

China

Ulrich Friedrich Wellner

Germany

Gethin Williams

United Kingdom

Uwe Wittel

Germany

Michael Wolf

USA

Joyce Wong

USA

Chaoneng Wu

China

Wojciech Wysocki

Poland

Songfeng Xu

China

Yad Ram Yadav

India

Katsuhiko Yanaga

Japan

Shukun Yao

China

Sezgin Yilmaz

Turkey

Cheng-Har Yip

Malaysia

Naoyuki Yokoyama

Japan

Tarik Yonguc

Turkey

Toshitaka Yoshii

Japan

Takeshi Yuasa

Japan

Giovanni Zagli

Italy

Dirk Zajonz

Germany

Melody Zhifang Ni

United Kingdom

Katja Zirlik

Germany

Oleksii Zubkov

Ukraine