BMC Cardiovascular Disorders reviewer acknowledgement 2015

Contributing reviewers

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

Flavia Ballocca

Italy

Matteo Bianco

Italy

Antonio H Frangieh

Switzerland

Franck Boccara

France

Sebastiano Gili

Italy

Karoly Kaszala

USA

Guido A. Matschuck Mhba

Germany

Robin Dullaart

Netherlands

John Hughes

UK

Toshinori Kamisako

Japan

Ryan Lennon

USA

Eiji Oda

Japan

Tony Merriman

New Zealand

Barry Palmer

New Zealand

Liang Chen

China

Andrea Chomistek

USA

Hannu Vanhanen

Finland

Umberto Benedetto

UK

Antonio Miceli

Italy

Susumu Manabe

Japan

Angelos Rigopoulos

Germany

Simone Biscaglia

Italy

Mario Iannaccone

Italy

Veronica D' Annunzio

Argentina

Liliana Nicolosi

Argentina

Dionyssios Leftheriotis

Greece

Vasilis Stasinos

Greece

Aldo Clerico

Italy

Armando Pucciarelli

Italy

Davide Giacomo Presutti

Italy

Giorgio Quadri

Italy

Fabrizio D'Ascenzo

Italy

Sven Meyer

Germany

Martina Zaninotto

Italy

Wayne Smith

South Africa

Julia Braun

Switzerland

Geetha Chittoor

USA

Francesca Viazzi

Italy

Hippokratis Kiaris

Greece

Jian Xiao

China

Brian Cooley

USA

Salma Esmaeil

Egypt

Rumi Faizer

USA

Eduardo Saadi

Brazil

Christian Delles

UK

Julian Walters

UK

Ignatios Ikonomidis

Greece

Agathi-Rosa Vrettou

Greece

Antonio Loforte

Italy

Maria Luisa Granada

Spain

Igor Koncar

Serbia

Emiliano Angeloni

Italy

Ana Olga Mocumbi

Mozambique

A Sampath Kumar

India

Guillermo Isasti

Spain

Raul Lopez-Salguero

Spain

María José Molina Mora

Spain

Ibrahim Akin

Germany

Michael Behnes

Germany

Stefano Pidello

Italy

Marta Bisi

Italy

Marco Pavani

Italy

Anna Grodzinsky

USA

Dany Jacob

USA

Carmelina Ariano

Italy

Imke Christiaans

Netherlands

Clemens Von Schacky

Germany

Jun Hu

USA

Linlin Li

USA

Guangliang Wang

USA

Abdulrahman Al-Malki

Saudi Arabia

Daniel Conklin

USA

Siyavash Joukar

Iran

Chiara Davico

Italy

Marianna Mazza

Italy

Alvaro Alonso

USA

Weihong Tang

USA

Jackie Boucher

USA

Ammar Ashor

UK

Henner Hanssen

Switzerland

Hsin-Fu Lin

Taiwan

Juan Gagliardi

Argentina

Manuel Rodriguez

Argentina

Alexander Berndt

Germany

Katja Grün

Germany

Isaac Aidonidis

Greece

Panagiota Flevari

Greece

Evangelos Repasos

Greece

Marijana Tadic

Serbia

Gianluca Campo

Italy

Yoichi Imori

Switzerland

Johannes Kragten

Netherlands

Asru Kumar Sinha

India

Sanjiv Dhingra

Canada

Ian Mcniece

USA

Tiina Heliö

Finland

Jelena Seferovic

Serbia

Zehra Bugra

Turkey

Vincent Robinson

USA

David Carty

UK

Carmel Mceniery

UK

David Freedman

USA

William Johnson

UK

Markus Juonala

Finland

Dario Celentani

Italy

Ping-Yen Liu

Taiwan

Vikram Agarwal

USA

Chirag Bavishi

USA

Parasuram Krishnamoorthy

USA

Kimberley Mellor

New Zealand

Michele Malaguarnera

Italy

Olga Mcleod

Sweden

Francesca Giordana

Italy

Gilles Lemesle

France

Marcus Franz

Germany

Thomas Meyer

Germany

Jeetesh Patel

UK

Peter Rahko

USA

Alistair Stewart

New Zealand

Madhulika Dixit

India

Yehuda Kamari

Israel

Jeffrey Brinker

USA

Ramez Nairooz

USA

Rita Pavasini

Italy

Michinari Nakamura

USA

Arintaya Phrommintikul

Thailand

Wilbert Aronow

USA

Bredy Pierre-Louis

USA

Devender Dhanda

USA

Giuseppina Di Biase

Italy

Marco Mennuni

Italy

Giulia Nangeroni

Italy

Lizhang Chen

China

Jingpu Shi

China

George Andrikopoulos

Greece

Dimitris Tsiachris

Greece

Fausto Biancari

Finland

Massimo Imazio

Italy

Na Li

USA

Michael Lipinski

USA

Michael Schwarzer

Germany

Lei Teng

USA

Yixuan Zhang

USA

Kurt Bestehorn

Germany

Michael Zairis

Greece

Barbro Kjellström

Sweden

Corey Tomczak

Canada

Amir Gahremanpour

USA

Yunn-Hwa Ma

Taiwan

Balázs Magyari

Hungary

Martina Pianelli

Italy

M.-Saadeh Suleiman

UK

Daniela Mazzaccaro

Italy

Giovanni Nano

Italy

Harry Smolen

USA

Shirling Lin

Taiwan

Jose Mill

Brazil

Charles Mondo

Uganda

Ayotunde Dokun

USA

Andrew Klein

USA

Naoyuki Takashima

Japan

Marek Brabec

Republic Czech

Christian Heiss

Germany

Antonis Vlassopoulos

Switzerland

Josef Dankiewicz

Sweden

Tinne Tranberg

Denmark

Sebastian Wiberg

Denmark

Oliver Gunkel

Germany

Mingyi Wang

USA

Vicky Cameron

New Zealand

Christopher Wong

UK

Spyridon Katsanos

Greece

Stamatios Lerakis

USA

Stylianos Orfanos

Greece

Nobuyuki Ohte

Japan

Danica Chen

USA

Augusto Montezano

UK

Ravi Sundaresan Nagalingam

India

Kai Lin

USA

Hajime Sakuma

Japan

Kyungeh An

USA

Wenqi Gan

USA

Peter Willeit

UK

Alessio Alogna

Austria

Heiner Post

Germany

Bronwyn Brown

Australia

Caroline Genco

USA

Mirela Habibovic

Netherlands

Kim Smolderen

USA

Kim Smolderen

Netherlands

Michael Stickland

Canada

Massimo Chello

Italy

Mario Petretta

Italy

Laura Perin

USA

Rajesh Ramasamy

Malaysia

Ntobeko Ntusi

South Africa

Welma Stonehouse

Australia

Welma Stonehouse

New Zealand

Jason Gill

UK

Raj Kumar Yadav

India

Branislava Ivanovic

Serbia

Sorina Mihaila

Romania

Grzegorz Bilo

Italy

Malgorzata Kloch-Badelek

Poland

Yu Jin

Belgium

Wiktoria Wojciechowska

Poland

Bo Hu

USA

Robert Biederman

USA

Saurabh Gupta

India

Ignacio Lugones

Argentina

Alanna Chamberlain

USA

Massimo Zoni-Berisso

Italy

Silvia Punzetti

Italy

Stefano Volpato

Italy

Thomas Gremmel

Austria

Konstantinos Katsanos

Greece

Paola Rizzo

Italy

Krisztina Heltai

Hungary

Lakshmi Mundkur

India

Emilio Vanoli

Italy

Tze-Fan Chao

Taiwan

Shao-Yuan Chuang

Taiwan

Chao-Yu Guo

Taiwan

Thomas Rosemann

Switzerland

Guillaume Lettre

Switzerland

Sebastien Theriault

Canada

Vasiliki Betihavas

Australia

David Schopfer

USA

Giacomo Boccuzzi

Italy

Alice Owen

Australia

David Preiss

UK

Li Jia

China

Yu Lu

USA

Amr Gad

Egypt

Giovanni Melina

Italy

Xiangwei Wu

China

Surendra Chutani

India

Decebal Gabriel Latcu

Monaco

Hassan Behlouli

Canada

Amresh Raina

USA

Dick Chan

Australia

Thomas Pulinilkunnil

Canada

Mahdi Najafi

Iran

Japhet Olisekodiaka

Nigeria

Hasan Shohag

Australia

Christoph Sinning

Germany

Miyuki Tsuchihashi-Makaya

Japan

Amber Courville

USA

Masakazu Hirata

Japan

Bernhard Maisch

Germany

Arsen Ristic

Serbia

Gurumurthy Hiremath

USA

Gen Suzuki

USA

Tadeusz Osadnik

Poland

Teresa Villarreal-Molina

Mexico

Ju Yi Chen

Taiwan

Pai Feng Hsu

Taiwan

Martin Schultz

Australia

Lin Xu

Hong Kong

Daniel Petrovic

Slovenia

Naoki Sato

Japan

Dmitry Shchekochikhin

Russian Federation

Torsten Hansen

Germany

Arti Shinde

USA

Xiaofang Lu

USA

Matthias Pauschinger

Germany

Luca Fileti

Italy

Arindam Maitra

India

Anna Lipowicz

Poland

Mads Nybo

Denmark

Francesco Perticone

Italy

Xin Tu

China

Robert Klautz

Netherlands

Yuqian Bao

China

Takeshi Matsumura

Japan

Julia Grapsa

UK

Kamal Mubarak

USA

Victoria Delgado

Netherlands

Knut Matre

Norway

Marjukka Kolehmainen

Finland

Giuseppe Ferrante

Italy

Gennaro Giustino

USA

Masahiro Natsuaki

Japan

Giuseppe Merla

Italy

David Buys

USA

Mizanur Rahman

Bangladesh

Bardia Arabkhani

Netherlands

Denise Baricocchi

Italy

Stjepan Jurisic

Germany

Emanuela Bostjancic

Slovenia

Yasuhide Kuwabara

Japan

Nina Zidar

Slovenia

Tobias Dünnwald

Austria

Yogish Kudva

USA

Erwan Leclair

Canada

Anup Karan

India

Luca Mascitelli

Italy

Tim Palmer

UK

John Hart

USA

Erik Holy

Switzerland

Patrick Mark

UK

Marius Miglinas

Lithuania

Naveed Akbar

UK

Louise Naylor

Australia

Pupalan Iyngkaran

Australia

Eric Loucks

USA

Paul Fedak

Canada

Katsuhito Fujiu

Japan

Frederic Jacques

Canada

Jiang Huai Wang

Ireland

Alida Caforio

Italy

Jitka Seidlerová

Czech Republic

Matteo Tebaldi

Italy

Jan Krejci

Czech Republic

Kelley Branch

USA

Muhib Khan

USA

Evan Thacker

USA

Abdallah Al-Mohammad

UK

Claudio Borghi

Italy

Giuseppe Giugliano

Italy

Regis Lamberts

New Zealand

Rainer G.H. Moosdorf

Germany

Natasa Bogavac-Stanojevic

Serbia

Nadia Hamdy

Egypt

Kim Connelly

Canada

David Playford

Australia

Jesse Dawson

UK

Moutaz Elkadri

UK

Charles Pearman

UK

Kerstin Hogg

Canada

Stephan Schirmer

Germany

Niels Van Royen

Netherlands

Manabu Hayakawa

Japan

Matteo Ghione

Italy

Fabio Mangiacapra

Italy

Michael Czubryt

Canada

Francesco Paneni

Sweden

Laura Burgers

Netherlands

Simone Huygens

Netherlands

Jian Xiong Chen

USA

Prasad Katakam

USA

Bin Wei

USA

Donal O'Gorman

Ireland

Georgios Theodorakis

Greece

Takumi Yamada

USA

Camille Lassale

UK

Yu-Guo Chen

China

Massimo Iacoviello

Italy

Marinella Tricarico

Italy

Sungjin Chung

South Korea

Tadashi Yoshida

Japan

Xiangjun Zeng

China

Wei Chen

China

Jennifer Strande

USA

Kirstine Calloe

Denmark

Douglas Curran-Everett

USA

Antony Jackson

UK

Morten Olesen

Denmark

Ander Regueiro Cueva

Canada

Majid Ghayour

Iran

Cyril Mamotte

Australia

Camilla Calvieri

Italy

Alfredo Rodriguez

Argentina

Amelia Carro

Spain

Martin Donato

Argentina

Federico Conrotto

Italy

Rami Doukky

USA

Venkatesh Murthy

USA

Randall Thompson

USA

Rozenn Quarck

Belgium

Mark Toshner

UK

Yoshihiro Fukumoto

Japan

Ana Savic-Radojevic

Serbia

Lei Wei

USA

Luigi Barberini

Italy

Trayambak Basak

USA

Sina Andalib

Islamic Republic Of Iran

Ricardo Perez De La Hoz

Argentina

Mehrdad Larry

Islamic Republic Of Iran

Aurelian Bidulescu

USA

Sayan Sen

UK

Susanne Unverzagt

Germany

Corstiaan Uil

Netherlands

Michael Bursztyn

Israel

Megan Wenner

USA

Mackram Eleid

USA

Oluseun O. Alli

USA

Hongyu Wang

China

Ichiro Tatsuno

Japan

Florian Rader

USA

Frangiscos Parthenakis

Greece

Angel Sanchez-Recalde

Spain

Salah Said

Netherlands

Jamilah Al Rahimi

Saudi Arabia

Ali Shafiq

USA

Matthew Jankowich

USA

S Andreas

Germany

Imran Iftikhar

USA

Pablo Salinas

Spain

Sang Hong Baek

Democratic People'S Republic Of Korea

Shozo Sueda

Japan

Stavros Tzortzis

Greece

Alexandra Frogoudaki

Greece

Jeffrey A. Brinker

USA

Masanori Taniwaki

Japan

Alessio Mattesini

Italy

Bledar Daka

Sweden

Sukhjinder Nijjer

UK

David Vivas

Spain

Jan Vojacek

Czech Republic

Robert Bauer

USA

Marijana Tadic Serbia And

Montenegro

Marcio Kiuchi

Brazil

Takeshi Takami

Japan

Neal Benowitz

USA

Jamie Hartmann-Boyce

UK

Agathi Vrettou

Greece

Spiridon Katsanos

Greece

Gianluca Faggioli

Italy

P De Rango

Italy

Muhib Khan

USA

Zhu-Ming Zhang

USA

Yuichiro Yano

USA

Inmaculada Moreno

USA

José Manuel García Pinilla

USA

Noela Rodríguez-Losada

USA

Alberto Crottogini

Argentina

Jai Singh

UK

Szu-Yuan Li

Taiwan, Republic Of China

Szu-Chia Chen

Taiwan, Republic Of China

Thanh Phan

Australia

Alfonso Ielasi

Italy

Stella Stabouli

Greece

Sanaz Sedaghat

Netherlands

Ahmet Karabulut

Turkey

Salvatore Carbone

Italy

Rebecca Levitt

USA

Kelvin Wong

Australia

Yunlong Huo

China

Ellen Freel

UK

Tatiana Kuznetsova

Belgium

Melinda Carrington

Australia

Adelaide Fusco

Italy

Masao Saotome

Japan

Eric Lopatta

Germany

James Moon

UK

João Cavalcante

USA

Luca Di Lullo

Italy

Seiji Umemoto

Japan

Ryan Lennon

USA

Douglas Curran-Everett

USA

Sebastian Garcia Zamora

Argentina

Alexander Fuernkranz

Germany

Zachary Bloomgarden

USA

Zdenek Turek

Czech Republic

Hynek Riha

Czech Republic

Salvatore Di Stefano

Spain

Emiliano Rodríguez-Caulo

Spain

Suzanne Van Dijk

Netherlands

Tatjana Rundek

USA

Warren Gasper

USA

Mark Koelemay

Netherlands

Sammy Chan

Canada

Prem Shekar

USA

Carlos Porras

Spain

Kim Smolderen

USA

Agnieszka Kapłon-Cieślicka

Poland

Una Martin

UK

Cornelia Deutsch

Germany

Sreek Vemulapalli

USA

Massimo Fineschi

Italy

Wayne L. Miller

USA

George Theodorakis

Greece

Yasihiro Yoshiga

Japan

Flavia Del Porto

Italy

Cecilia Hertig

Argentina

Mustafa Cikirikcioglu

Switzerland

Olivier Bouchot

France

Stelios Tzeis

Greece

Fred Buckhold

USA

Andreas Schneider

Germany

S E Kjeldsen

Norway

Sante Pierdomenico

Italy

Iddo Ben-Dov

Israel

D Tsiapras

Greece

George Makavos

Greece

Tain-Yen Hsia

UK

Gemma Sánchez-Espín

Spain

Carlos Velazquez

Spain

Virginia Miller

USA

Ahmet Can

Turkey

Giampaolo Morciano

Italy

Fausto Rigo

Italy

Suzanne Fredericks

Canada

Jacek Bil

Poland

Demos Katritsis

Greece

Xenophon Costeas

Greece

Sushmita Parashar

USA

Rosa Sicari

Italy

Elizabeth Cross

UK

Sanjay Chatterjee

India

Chirag Bavishi

USA

Tudor Pörner

Germany

Yves St-Pierre

Canada

Manlio Marquez

Mexico

Robert Scragg

New Zealand

Takafumi Okura

Japan

Sumusu Ogawa

Japan

Tomasz Guzik

UK

Senbeta Abdissa

Ethiopia

Zsolt Bagyura

Hungary

Mohamed Abdel Rahman

Egypt

John Saxon

USA

Delphine De Smedt

Belgium

Yumei Gu

Belgium

Johann Auer

Austria

Stylianos Kapiotis

Austria

Jens Jordan

Germany

Dorota Drozdz

Poland

Janne Maier

USA

Catherine Bagot

UK

Stefania Battista

Italy

Roberto Gambino

Italy

Brian Graham

USA

Solomon Abebe

Ethiopia

A.K.M. Islam

Bangladesh

K.M.H.S. Haque

Bangladesh

Michael Toth

USA

Carlo Barbetta

Italy

Alison Short

Australia

Joanne Loewy

USA

Kun-Ta Chou

Taiwan

Fatima Cintra

Brazil

Neil Heron

UK

Rohan Khera

USA

Agnieszka Olszanecka

Poland

Amenah Jaghoori

Australia

Tetsuo Sasano

Japan

Wai-Meng Kwok

USA

Alexandros Briasoulis

USA

Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz

Turkey

Emmy Okello

Uganda

Markus Ferrari

Germany

Jiunn-Lee Lin

Taiwan

T Leiria

Brazil

Gil Salles

Brazil

Andrea Schrepper

Germany

Renzo Levi

Italy

Peter Weeke

Denmark

Christina Werner

Germany

Seong-Kyu Lee

Republic Of Korea

Jeffrey Breall

USA

Oriol Rebagliato Nadal

Spain

Andrew Don-Wauchope

Canada

Panagiota Christia

USA

Antonio Frangieh

Switzerland

Laurence G. Howes

Australia

Ju-Yi Chen

Taiwan

Ales Linhart

Czech Republic

Mariano Pellicano

Belgium

Themistoklis Maounis

Greece

John Palios

Greece

Liwen Li

China

Emmanouil Kanoupakis

Greece

Anne Child

UK

Cristiana Catena

Italy

Gavin Norton

South Africa

Muharrem Akin

Germany

Celestino Sardu

Italy