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Reviewer acknowledgement 2014

Contributing reviewers

The Editors of the Journal Cardiothoracic Surgery would like to thank all of our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 10 (2014) and whose valuable support is fundamental to its success.

Yasir Abu-Omar

United Kingdom

Gurkan Acar

Turkey

Deepak Acharya

United States of America

Werner Adler

Germany

George Aislaitner

Greece

Raja Akhtar

Pakistan

Mehmet Aktas

United States of America

Mohamed Alattar

Egypt

Keith Allen

United States of America

Rui Almeida

Brazil

Reda Al-Refaie

Egypt

Peter Alston

United Kingdom

Renato Alves

Brazil

Khalid Amer

United Kingdom

Kayvan Amjadi

Canada

Gianni Angelini

United Kingdom

Ashraf Anwar

Saudi Arabia

Richard Asinger

United States of America

Cansel Atinkaya Öztürk

Turkey

Rony Atoui

Canada

Alexandre Azmoun

France

Ugur Bal

Turkey

Nikolaos Baltayiannis

Greece

Gerardus Bennink

Germany

Marius Berman

United Kingdom

Jose Bernal

Spain

Jean-Philippe Berthet

France

Farah Bhatti

United Kingdom

Yavuz Bilgin

Netherlands

Adrian Billeter

Germany

Bojan Biocina

Croatia

Yasuyuki Bito

Japan

Nikolaos Bonaros

Austria

Johannes Bonatti

United Arab Emirates

Petre Vlah Horea Botianu

Romania

Christoph Brochhausen

Germany

Keith Buchan

Uruguay

Giovanni Cagnoni

Italy

Antonio Calafiore

Saudi Arabia

Luigi Camporota

United Kingdom

Luiz Fernando Caneo

Brazil

Khang Cao

Viet Nam

Giuseppe Cardillo

Italy

Thierry Carrel

Switzerland

Mario Castillo-Sang

United States of America

Betul Celik

Turkey

Rikhia Chakraborty

United States of America

Umar Chaudhry

United Kingdom

Arindam Chaudhury

United States of America

Jingjing Che

China

Haiquan Chen

China

Davy Cheng

Canada

Jian-Bo Cheng

Taiwan

Stephen Cheng

Hong Kong

Seong-Joon Cho

Korea, South

Se Hoon Choi

Korea, South

Jill Cholette

United States of America

Chee Rui Chong

Brunei

Torsten Christ

Germany

Namsik Chung

Korea, South

Sertac Cicek

Turkey

Oved Cohen

Israel

Steven Conrad

United States of America

Gioachino Coppi

Italy

Ricardo Corso

Brazil

Francisco Costa

Brazil

Carlos E Costa Almeida

Portugal

Michael Crittenden

United States of America

Shitao Cui

China

Martin Czerny

Switzerland

Yongch Daiyn

China

David D'Alessandro

United States of America

Petrov Danail

Bulgaria

Ahmad Darwazah

Israel

Seyed Hashem Davarpanah

Iran

Marisa De Feo

Italy

Thomas de Kroon

Netherlands

Indu Deglurkar

United Kingdom

Roland Demaria

France

Sanjay Deshmukh

India

Rogier Determann

Netherlands

Pascal Dohmen

Germany

Nicolas Doll

Germany

Kim Dong Kwan

Korea, South

Christophe Dooms

Belgium

Jakob Dörler

Austria

Jerry Easo

Germany

Holger Eggebrecht

Germany

Hussein EL Shafei

United Kingdom

John Elefteriades

United States of America

Adam EL-Gamel

United Kingdom

Shusuke Endo

Japan

Hideki Endoh

Japan

Joachim Mathias Erb

Germany

Maja Ercegovac

Serbia

Nevzat Erdil

Turkey

Neta Erez

Israel

Giampiero Esposito

Italy

Paulo Roberto Evora

Brazil

Dianchun Fang

China

Wentao Fang

China

Olivia Fanucchi

Italy

Khalil Fattouch

Italy

Michael Firstenberg

United States of America

Christophoros Foroulis

Greece

Omar Franco

United States of America

Robert Frater

United States of America

Richard K Freeman

United States of America

Sara Fuentes

Spain

Haruka Fujinami

Japan

Franco Gaboardi

Italy

Sean Galvin

Australia

Changqing Gao

China

Philippe Garot

France

Mario Gaudino

Italy

Walter Gomes

Brazil

Javier Gonzalez

Spain

Michael Goretsky

United States of America

Masashi Gotoh

Japan

Mustafa Guden

Turkey

Fernando Guimaraes

Brazil

Adem Guler

Turkey

Ahmet Umit Gullu

Turkey

Yanli Guo

China

Andreas Hagendorff

Germany

Michael Halkos

United States of America

Assad Haneya

Germany

Deborah Harrington

United Kingdom

Derek Hausenloy

United Kingdom

László Hejjel

Hungary

Khosro Hekmat

Germany

Roland Henaine

France

Anders Henriksson

Sweden

Mitsunori Higuchi

Japan

Dominique Himbert

France

Hitoshi Hirose

United States of America

Johannes Holfeld

Austria

Daijiro Hori

Japan

David Horne

Canada

Michael Hsin

Hong Kong

Nan-Yung Hsu

Taiwan

Han-Shui Hsu

Taiwan

Sheng-Shou Hu

China

Jinwook Hwang

Korea, South

Charles Ibingira

Uganda

Yasunori Iida

Japan

Kiyotaka Imoto

Japan

Andrea Imperatori

Italy

Tadashi Isomura

Japan

Hironori Izutani

Japan

Jan Janousek

Czech Republic

Robert Jaquiss

United States of America

Kalyana Javangula

United Kingdom

Mark Jones

United Kingdom

Maninder Kalkat

United Kingdom

Robin Kanagasabay

United Kingdom

Emmanouil Ioannis Kapetanakis

Greece

Mehmet Kaplan

Turkey

Oguz Karahan

Turkey

Theodoros Karaiskos

Greece

Tarkan Karakan

Turkey

Tara Karamlou

United States of America

Pankaj Kaul

United Kingdom

Toshihiro Kawahira

Japan

Steven Keller

United States of America

Alper Kepez

Turkey

John Kern

United States of America

Ken Kesler

United States of America

Dongyoon Keum

Korea, South

Zain Khalpey

United States of America

Arndt Kiessling

Germany

Yeongdae Kim

Korea, South

Hyun Koo Kim

Korea, South

Dae Hyun Kim

Korea, South

Nam Su Kim

Korea, South

Shuichi Kino

Japan

Alan Kirk

United Kingdom

Masahiro Kitada

Japan

Soichiro Kitamura

Japan

Robert Klautz

Netherlands

Chris Klonaris

Greece

Stefan Klotz

Germany

Junjiro Kobayashi

Japan

Toshiro Kobayashi

Japan

Philipp Kolat

Germany

Kemal Korkmaz

Turkey

Ioannis Koukis

Greece

Rafal Krenke

Poland

Rungroj Krittayaphong

Thailand

Jan Kuks

Netherlands

Giovanni Landoni

Italy

Rodney J Landreneau

United States of America

Frank Langer

Germany

John Lassetter

United States of America

Dong Kyu Lee

Korea, South

Sang-kwon Lee

Korea, South

Gunda Leschber

Germany

Thomas Lesser

Germany

Eric Lim

United Kingdom

Changyu Liu

Chile

Shangfeng Liu

China

Lunxu Liu

China

Filippo Lococo

Italy

Vladimir Lonsky

Czech Republic

Marco Lucchi

Italy

Heyman Luckraz

United Kingdom

Xiaofeng Lv

China

Andrius Macas

Lithuania

Ali Machaal

United Kingdom

Unnikrishnan Madathipat

India

Kayapanda Mandana

India

Peter Manning

United States of America

Brivaldo Markman-Filho

Brazil

Sven Martens

Germany

Luigi Martinelli

Italy

Ivo Martinovic

Germany

Antonio Martin-Ucar

United Kingdom

Giuseppe Marulli

Italy

Yoshiro Matsui

Japan

James McCully

United States of America

Gianclaudio Mecozzi

Netherlands

Lorenzo Menicanti

Italy

Praveen Menon

India

Kivanc Metin

Turkey

Antonio Miceli

Italy

Naoki Minato

Japan

Noritoshi Minematsu

Japan

Paul Modi

United Kingdom

Akira Mogi

Japan

Tamas F Molnar

Hungary

Marc Moon

United States of America

Roberto Mosca

United Kingdom

Ajay Moza

Germany

Boniface Msamati

Tanzania

Leonardo Mulinari

Brazil

Henrique Murad

Brazil

Ulf Myhre

Malaysia

Hiroshige Nakamura

Japan

Teruya Nakamura

Japan

Yoshitsugu Nakamura

Japan

Yuki Nakayama

Japan

Giovanni Nano

Italy

Ehsan Natour

Netherlands

Petr Nemec

Czech Republic

Vinicius Nina

Brazil

Luc Noyez

Netherlands

Jonah Odim

United States of America

Sunil Ohri

United Kingdom

Yutaka Okita

Japan

Jemi Olak

United States of America

Annette Olieman

Netherlands

Francesco Onorati

Italy

Korah Oommen

United Kingdom

Satoru Osaki

United States of America

Oner Ozdogan

Turkey

Hakan Ozkan

Turkey

Davide Pacini

Italy

Sanjay Pai

India

Nestoras Papadopoulos

Germany

Sotiris Papaspyros

United Kingdom

Kisung Park

Korea, South

Bernard Park

United States of America

Vanash Patel

United Kingdom

Marios Patronis

United Kingdom

Jason Peart

Australia

Sai Peasad

United Kingdom

Giles Peek

United Kingdom

Mate Petricevic

Croatia

Orlando Petrucci

Brazil

Rainer Petzina

Germany

Marcello Picchio

Italy

Maximilian Pichlmaier

Germany

Bruno Pinamonti

Italy

Bruno Podesser

Austria

Florentina Popescu

United Kingdom

Aron Frederik Popov

Germany

Tiziano Porretta

Italy

Italo Porto

Italy

Adriano Massimiliano Priola

Italy

Aristotelis Protopapas

United Kingdom

Rajesh Puranik

Australia

Yongjun Qian

China

Prem Rabindra

United States of America

Mohammad Taghi Rajabi Mashhadi

Iran

Mahesh Ramchandani

United States of America

Kandadai Seshadri Rammohan

United Kingdom

Giovanni Rapuzzi

Italy

Christoph Raspé

Germany

Darius Rassoulian

Germany

Alberto Redaelli

Italy

Attilio Renzulli

Italy

Oliver Reuthebuch

Switzerland

Eduardo Rocha

Brazil

Steffan Rodel

Netherlands

Sebastian Rojas

Germany

Alvaro Rojas-Peña

United States of America

Claudia Romagnoni

Italy

Arjang Ruhparwar

Germany

Elisabeth Rushing

Switzerland

Claudio Francesco Russo

Italy

Han Young Ryu

Korea, South

Eduardo Saadi

Brazil

Anton Sabashnikov

Germany

Rafael Sadaba

Spain

Bahram Sadeghi Bigham

Iran

Kamales Kumar Saha

India

Francesco Saia

Italy

Shun-Ichiro Sakamoto

Japan

Tomas Salerno

United States of America

Albert Sam

United States of America

Cleusa Santos

Brazil

Shigeki Sawada

Japan

Robert Scheubel

Germany

Ralph Schmid

Switzerland

Michael Rahbek Schmidt

Denmark

Stefan Schneider

Germany

Gilbert Schorlemmer

United States of America

Christian Schreiber

Germany

Christopher Seder

United States of America

Amir Sepehripour

United Kingdom

Paul Sergeant

Belgium

Aamir Shah

United States of America

Lisa Shah-Patel

United States of America

Hani Shennib

United States of America

Qiang Shi

China

Chih-chung Shiao

Taiwan

Chun Che Shih

Thailand

Satoshi Shiono

Japan

Saeed Shoar

Iran

Robert Siegel

United States of America

Shuli Silberman

Israel

Marcia Cristina Silva

Brazil

Scott Silvestry

United States of America

Pranava Sinha

United States of America

Leland Siwek

United States of America

Paul Soeding

Australia

Dimitrios Sokolis

Greece

Sebastian-Patrick Sommer

Germany

Joshua Sonett

United States of America

Gopal Soppa

United Kingdom

Sotirios Spiliopoulos

Germany

Francesco Squadrito

Italy

Umberto Squarcia

Italy

Elisabeth Stahle

Sweden

Joel Starkopf

Estonia

Pierluigi Stefano

Italy

Paul Stein

United States of America

Paul Stelzer

United States of America

R. Scott Stephens

United States of America

Sreekumar Subramanian

United States of America

Jie Sun

China

Jonas Sunden-Cullberg

Sweden

Yuji Tachimori

Japan

Shinzo Takamori

Japan

Masaya Tamura

Japan

Shinya Tane

Japan

Hong Tang

China

Giordano Tasca

Italy

Istemihan Tengiz

Turkey

Euclides Tenorio

Brazil

Michael Teodori

United States of America

Nils Teucher

Germany

Jess Thompson

United States of America

Sarah K Thompson

Australia

Tom Treasure

United Kingdom

Hiroyoshi Tsubochi

Japan

Tomohiro Tsunekawa

Japan

Yasuhiro Tsutani

Japan

Joseph Turek

United States of America

James Tweddell

United States of America

Alper Ucak

Turkey

Kazuhiro Ueda

Japan

Yuichi Ueda

Japan

Hidetaka Uramoto

Japan

Elijah Ussiri

Tanzania

Jarle Vaage

Norway

Gonzalo Varela

Spain

Dirk Varelmann

United States of America

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United Kingdom

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Italy

Murali Vettath

India

Nicola Viola

United Kingdom

Emiliano Votta

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Alexander Wahba

Norway

Matthew Wall

United States of America

Qing Wang

China

Rong Wang

China

Zhiquan Wang

United States of America

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Japan

Bo Wei

China

Douglas West

United Kingdom

Anne Westerlind

Sweden

Alexander Weymann

Germany

Elizabeth Whitlock

United States of America

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Guilherme Yazbek

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Taggart, D., Zamvar, V. Reviewer acknowledgement 2014. J Cardiothorac Surg 10, 24 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13019-015-0227-8

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