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Reviewer acknowledgements 2016

The editors and staff of BMC Surgery would like to warmly thank the reviewers whose comments helped to shape the journal, for their invaluable assistance with review of manuscripts in Volume 16 (2016).

Eirik Aahlin, Norway

Shalimar Abdullah, Malaysia

Sam Adie, Australia

Sami Alasari, South Korea

Olusegun Alatise, Nigeria

Sorin Alexandrescu, Romania

Marco Allaix, Italy

Fernando A. Alvarez, Argentina

Luis Alvarez-Galovich, Spain

Emad Aly, UK

Apostolos Analatos, Sweden

Rahul Anand, USA

Umberto Anceschi, Italy

Kristoffer Andresen, Denmark

Hagen Andruszkow, Germany

Andrea Angelini, Italy

Luca Ansaloni, Italy

Amedeo Anselmi, France

Stavros Antoniou, Germany

Luca Arru, Luxembourg

Avo Artinyan, USA

Paolo Aurello, Italy

Berk Aykut, Germany

Gian Luca Baiocchi, Italy

Andreas Bakogiannis, Greece

Chad Ball, Canada

Omar Barakat, USA

Louise Barbier, France

Sorin Barbu, Romania

Giacomo Batignani, Italy

Dirk Bausch, Germany

Filip Bednar, USA

Daniel Berglind, Sweden

Samer Saad Bessa, Egypt

Lael Anson Best, Isreal

Aneel Bhangu, UK

Lorenzo Bianchi, Italy

Roland Biber, Germany

Chhagan Bihari, India

Ugur Anil Bingol, Turkey

Marcel Binnebosel, Germany

Antonio Biondi, Italy

Arianna Birindelli, Italy

Christoph Birkenmaier, Germany

John Blebea, USA

Joel H. Blumin, USA

Maximilan Bockhorn, Germany

Marja Boermeester, Netherlands

Giuseppe Borzellino, Italy

Florin Botea, Romania

Ismail Bouhout, Canada

Joanne M Bowen, Australia

Marius Bredell, Switzerland

Stefan Breitenstein, Switzerland

Stephanie O Breukink, Netherlands

Guy Brock, USA

Peter Bronsert, Germany

Richard Burney, USA

Mario Cabraja, Germany

Ufuk Cagirici, Turkey

Fabio Cesare Campanile, Italy

Jvan Casarin, Italy

Marco Catarci, Italy

Ismar Lima Cavalcanti, Brazil

Marco Ceresoli, Italy

Albert Chao, USA

David Chen, USA

Angela Cheng, USA

Harvey Chim, USA

David Chuang, Taiwan

Michael Chung, USA

Luigi Cirillo, Italy

Roberto Cirocchi, Italy

Clancy Jake Clark, USA

Giovanni Conzo, Italy

Franco Corcione, USA

Alessandro Crestani, Italy

Michael D'Alfonso, USA

Scott M. Damrauer, USA

Edward Damrose, USA

Maurits De Brauw, Netherlands

Maurizio De Palma, Italy

Nancy DeMore, USA

Lynette Denny, South Africa

Paula Denoya, USA

Antonio di Cataldo, Italy

Violante Di Donato, Italy

Salomone Di Saverio, Italy

Charles DiMaggio, USA

Bogdan Dorobantu, Romania

Christian Dualé, France

Traian Dumitrascu, Romania

Hulda Einarsdottir, USA

Ayman El Nakeeb, Egypt

Stefano Elboustany, Italy

Dawn Elfenbein, USA

Mohamed Elshabrawy, Egypt

Mert Erkan, Germany

Johannes Fakler, Germany

Guido Ferlazzo, Italy

Mariano Fernández-Fairén, Spain

Marco Fisichella, USA

Jessica Forcillo, USA

Rene Fortelny, Austria

Suzanne Fredericks, Canada

Jacob Freedman, Sweden

Edgar Furnee, Netherlands

Gurpreet Gandhoke, USA

Sandrö Gerli, Italy

Lawrence Gillman, Canada

Francesca Giunchi, Italy

Robert E. Glasgow, USA

Torben Glatz, Germany

Michael Golatta, Germany

Felipe Gómez, Mexico

Francesco Gossetti, Italy

Catherine Granger, Australia

Frederik Greve, Germany

Ali Guner, Turkey

Rong Jun Guo, USA

Michael Haglund, USA

Eric Hammerberg, USA

Hobart W. Harris, USA

Linda Harris, USA

Mitchell Henry, USA

Daniel Hernández-Vaquero, Spain

Noriyuki Hirahara, Japan

David P Horowitz, USA

Yingqi Hua, China

Martin Hubner, Switzerland

Adam I Riker, USA

Yik Yee Ian, Malaysia

Alkesh Jani, USA

Brian Jankowitz, USA

Martina Kadmon, Germany

Adolf Kaindlstorfer, Austria

Thomas Kallarakkal, Malaysia

Utku Kandemir, USA

Wolfram Karenovics, Switzerland

Bora Karip, Turkey

Kenneth A. Kesler, USA

Ali Kilic, USA

John V. Kiluk, USA

Hoon Yub Kim, South Korea

Christos Kontovounisios, UK

Kostiantyn Kopchak, Ukraine

Tomislav Kopjar, Croatia

Peter Kornprat, Austria

Katerina E Kotzampassi, Greece

Niels Thorndahl Kroman, Denmark

Manoj Kuduvalli, UK

Swati Kulkarni, USA

Vincent Lam, Australia

Mark Lambie, UK

Sorrel Langley-Hobbs, UK

Peng Choong Lau, Malaysia

M. Catherine Lee, USA

I. Michael Leitman, USA

Zhang Licheng, China

Jules Lin, USA

Yueju Liu, China

Emanuele Lo Menzo, USA

Kerstin Lorenz, USA

Kirk A. Ludwig, USA

Akhil Maheshwari, USA

Frank Makowiec, Germany

Michele Ann Manahan, USA

Gabriele Manetti, Italy

Stefano Margaritora, Italy

Howard Masuoka, USA

Franz Mayer, Austria

Ruth Mckee, UK

Anastasia Mentessidou, Greece

Everth Merida, Mexico

Neil Merrett, Australia

Neil Merrett, Australia

Addisu Mesfin, USA

Sarkis Meterissian, Canada

Yutaka Midorikawa, Japan

Claudio Mingo, USA

Lucas Minig, Spain

Petros Mirilas, USA

Massimiliano Mistrangelo, Italy

Ralph J Mobbs, Australia

David Mooney, USA

Rosilene Motta Elias Coelho, Brazil

Leila Mureebe, USA

Mario Musella, Italy

Koji Nakada, Japan

Pradeep Narayan, India

Bruno Nardo, UK

Hari Nathan, USA

Narendra Nathoo, USA

Giuseppe Nigri, Italy

Jonathan Norton, Canada

Patrick O'Dwyer, USA

Monika Fagevik Olsen, Sweden

Sarah Oltmann, USA

Ramesh Omranipour, Iran

Luigi Oragano, Italy

Alessandro Paganini, Italy

Desire Pantalone, Italy

Haiko Pape, Germany

Ann Parr, USA

Michał Pędziwiatr, Poland

Lluís Peri, Spain

Marco Petrillo, Italy

Anna Petryk, USA

Pascal Pineau, France

Ilaria Pitruzzella, Italy

Mauro Podda, Italy

Hans-Christian Pommergaard, Denmark

Xinhua Qu, China

Shawn R. Gilbert, USA

Marco Raffaelli, Italy

Falk Rauchfuss, UK

Alberto Ruano Raviña, Spain

Wilson Z Ray, USA

Sara Regnér, Sweden

Henry E. Rice, USA

Geoffrey Roberts, UK

Riccardo Rosati, Italy

Camiel Rosman, Netherlands

Sharona B Ross, USA

Christos Salakos, Greece

Massimo Sartelli, Italy

Alain Sauvanet, UK

Natasha Savage, Gabon

Mark Savarese, USA

Noah Schenkman, USA

Didier Schneiter, Switzerland

Stephan Schug, Australia

John Scolaro, USA

Frank Irving Scott, USA

Don Selzer, USA

Boris Sepesi, USA

Luca Sessa, Italy

Asim Shabbir, Singapore

Aali Sheen, UK

Lizong Shen, China

Dongquan Shi, China

Sami Shimi, UK

Jason Sicklick, USA

Neil Smart, UK

Kjetil Soreide, Norway

Giulio Sozzi, Italy

Lene Spanager, Denmark

Katrina Spilsbury, Australia

Daniel C Steinemann, Switzerland

Brendon Stiles, USA

Mike Stitely, New Zealand

Luc Strobbe, Netherlands

Ram Kumar Subramanyan, USA

Lars Bo Svendsen, Denmark

Muraki Takashi, Japan

Judith Tanner, UK

Mikhail Tavobilov, Russian Federation

Theodore Teruya, USA

Mario Testini, Italy

Brian A. Van Tine, USA

Victor Tomulescu, Romania

Valeria Tonini, Italy

Ana Torres, Spain

Ruth Natalia Teresa Turrini, Brazil

Konstantinos Aristotelis Vakalopoulos, Netherlands

Antonio Valezi, Brazil

Daniel Vargo, USA

Alexander Veenhof, Netherlands

Alejandra Villamil, Argentina

Andreas Vogt, Switzerland

Dong Wang, USA

Jeffrey C Wang, USA

Chuanshun Wang, China

Irene Wapnir, USA

Nir Wasserberg, Isreal

Karl Welke, USA

Ulrich Wellner, Germany

Noel Whitaker, Australia

Paul C P H Willems, Netherlands

Piotr Witkowski, USA

Harvey Woehlck, USA

Kai Pun Wong, China

Yanghee Woo, USA

Yun-Feng Yang, China

Kunio Yoshizawa, Japan

Christopher Young, Australia

Dirk Zajonz, Germany

Mujdat Zeybel, Turkey

Longpo Zheng, China

Melody Zhifang Ni, UK

Dongsheng Zhou, China


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