Acknowledgement to reviewers 2015

International Journal of Surgery 24 (2015) 108–111

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Acknowledgement to reviewers 2015 The Editors and the Publisher of the Journal would like to thank all our reviewers for their invaluable contribution over the past year. Their involvement assures the continued success of the journal, and we look forward to their support in the future. We apologise to any reviewer who has been inadvertently omitted from the list.

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Abdusalam Abu-Own, United Kingdom Raafat Yahia Afifi, Egypt Brij Bhushan Agarwal, India Gaurav Agarwal, India Oktay Akça, United States Tamer Akça, Turkey Sammy Al-Benna, United Kingdom Hasan B. Alam, United States Karim Alavi, United States Seth A Alpert, United States Juan Enrique Alvarez Rodriguez., Argentina Emad Aly, United Kingdom Toshiyasu Amano, Japan Peter C Ambe, Germany Alireza Aminsharifi, Islamic Republic of Iran Umberto Anceschi, Italy Asit Arora, United Kingdom M. Hammad Ather, Pakistan Vinzenz Auersperg, Austria Riccardo Autorino, United States Antonio Aversa, Italy Zaid Awad, United Kingdom Ziad Awad, United States Michael Ayers, United States Rajendra Badwe, India Aranya Bagchi, United States Michael Edward Bailey, United Kingdom C S Bal, India Aram Baram, Iraq Claudia Maria Regina Bareggi, Italy Juan P Barret, Spain Mohammad Bashashati, Canada Somprakas Basu, India Sandip Basu, India T. Bates, United Kingdom Marcelo A. Beltran, Chile Umberto Benedetto, United Kingdom Kunwar Bhatia, Hong Kong Adrian Bianchi, United Kingdom John W. Birk, United States Conrad Vickery Bishop, United Kingdom Quamar Bismil, United Kingdom Stein Bjornsson, United Kingdom Domenico Borzomati, Italy Michael Jennings Boscoe, United Kingdom James Brewin, United Kingdom Giuseppe Brisinda, Italy Laura R Brown, United States Siobhan P Brown, United States Oliver Brunckhorst, United Kingdom Dursun Bugra, Turkey Matthew Bultitude, United Kingdom Richard Burney, United States James R Butler, United States Kasim Caglayan, Turkey Mehmet Caglikulekci, Turkey Rocco Salvatore Calabrò, Italy Pietro Giorgio Calò, Italy Slivestro Canonico, Italy Damiano Caputo, Italy Wu CC, Taiwan Ben Challacombe, United Kingdom Sarat P Chandra, India Anthony Charles, United States Kris Chatamra, Thailand Xiaoping Chen, China Hao Chen, CHINA Jill Cherry-Bukowiec, United States Massimo Chiarugi, Italy Nisar Ahmad Chowdri, India Krishna Bentley Clough, France Steven Colquhoun, United States Miguel Congregado, Spain David K.C. Cooper, United States Roberto Coppola, Italy Ali Coskun, Turkey Patrick A Coughlin, United Kingdom Trent James Cross, Australia Maria Cristina d’Agostino, Italy

Anne Kjaergaard Danielsen, Denmark Amitava Das, India Sona Dave, INDIA Piroze M. Davierwala, Germany Murat Dayangac, Turkey Rudy Leon De Wilde, Germany Suzi Demirbag, Turkey Salil V Deo, United States Suryanarayana V Deo, India Ketan Desai, India Vinay Deshmane, India Hooman Djaladat, United States Ahmet Dogrul, Turkey Wei Dong, United States Mustafa Duman, Turkey Mark Duxbury, United Kingdom David W. Eisele, United States Burcin Ekser, United States Kevin El-Hayek, United States Elisabeth Elder, Australia Poonam Abhay Elhence, India Jérôme Engel Jr, United States Mehmet Erdil, Turkey Abdullah Erdogan, Turkey Sabri Erguney, Turkey Tani Fasih, United Kingdom Nicholas A Faure Walker, United Kingdom Roland Fernandes, United Kingdom Marco Filauro, Italy David M. Fink, United States J.E.F. Fitzgerald, United Kingdom Constantino Fondevila, Spain Frank Frizelle, New Zealand Sergio Alexandre Gehrke, Brazil Daren Joseph Gibson, United Kingdom Salvatore Giordano, Finland Laurence Gluch, Australia Mahesh Goel, India Robert Goldstein, United States Ian Grant, United Kingdom Mary Gray, United States Jacob Greenberg, United States Ewen A Griffiths, United Kingdom Nathalie Guedj, France K Gupta, United States Bünyamin Gürbulak, Turkey Ivo Gwanmesia, United Kingdom Angelita Habr-Gama, Brazil Ariel Halevy, Israel Zane Hammoud, United States Sanguk Han, Republic Of Korea Rakesh Handa, India Joaquim Havens, United States Donagh A Healy, Ireland Madhusoodhana K R Hebbar, United Kingdom Herbert B. Hechtman, United States Daniel H Hechtman, United States Michael G Heckman, United States Mark Hemmila, United States Marilyn Heng, United States Kwok Ming Ho, Australia Donald Anthony Hudson, South Africa Mohamed Hasan Husein, Egypt Yasuhiro Ito, Japan Hayato Iwase, United States N Gopalakrishna Iyer, Singapore Younes Jahangiri, United States Satish Jain, India Jan G Jakobsson, Sweden Imran Khan Jalbani, Pakistan Sabita Jiwnani, India Colin Johnson, United Kingdom Haytham M.A. Kaafarani, United States Delawir Kahn, South Africa Yogeesh D Kamat, United Kingdom George W. Kaplan, United States Andrei Karpenko, Russian Federation Veeru Kasivisvanathan, United Kingdom Miklós Kásler, Hungary

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Ahmad Kaviani, Islamic Republic of Iran Hidejiro Kawahara, Japan Avi Khafif, Israel Omar Khan, United Kingdom Adam S. Kibel, United States Wojciech Kielan, Poland Kyung Sik Kim, Republic of Korea David R. King, United States Vivek Kirpekar, India Boris Kirshtein, Israel Roberto Klappenbach, Argentina Eric Neil Klein, United States Christian Klink, Germany Belma Kocer, Turkey Yoon Woo Koh, Republic of Korea Shuhei Komatsu, Japan Fumio Konishi, Japan Kamil Cagri Kose, Turkey Gudrun Kunst, United Kingdom Ersin Kuyucu, Turkey Constantinos Kyriakides, United Kingdom Eric C.H. Lai, China Joseph W.Y. Lau, Hong Kong Carlos Leal, Colombia Tim Lees, United Kingdom Sam Leinster, United Kingdom Smita Lele, India Ravi Kumar Lingam, United Kingdom Bing Liu, CHINA Davide Lomanto, Singapore Sebastian Lucas, United Kingdom David Machado-Aranda, United States Ashok Mahapatra, India Tarek Mahdy, Egypt John Makanjuola, United Kingdom Pietro Giorgio Malvindi, United Kingdom Ralph Mangusan, United States Gregory Bruce Mann, Australia Vito Mannacio, Italy Robert Mansel, United Kingdom Tommaso Maria Manzia, Italy Gabriele Marangoni, United Kingdom Jeffrey M. Marks, United States Samuele Massarut, Italy Vallejo Francisco Mateo, Spain Andrew Maw, United Kingdom Horacio F. Mayer, Argentina Haggi Mazeh, Israel Peter McCulloch, United Kingdom Emma Rose McGlone, United Kingdom Mark McGurk, United Kingdom Angela Meier, United States Abdul-Wahed Meshikhes, Saudi Arabia Plamen Mihaylov, United States Frederick H. Millham, United States Rainer Mittermayr, Austria Omeed Moaven, United States George Mochloulis, United Kingdom Andrew Montgomery, United Kingdom D Moore, United States David L. Morris, Australia Melanie I Morris, Canada David Morris, United States Satoru Motoyama, Japan Seyed Reza Moussavi, Islamic Republic of Iran Daniel Moya, Argentina Oliver J Muensterer, Germany Goohyun Mun, Republic of Korea Sobha Nair, India Lena Napolitano, United States Gennaro Nappo, France Chandishwar Nath, India Hari Nathan, United States Iain James Nixon, United Kingdom Aníbal Roberto Núñez De Pierro, Argentina Natascha Nüssler, Germany Adrian O’Callaghan, Ireland Enyinnaya Ofo, Australia Ramesh Omranipour, Islamic Republic of Iran

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Ruben Orda, Israel Robert Osteen, United States Donald R. Ostergard, United States Murat Özeren, Turkey Hannu Paajanen, Finland Prathamesh S Pai, India Atanu Pal, United Kingdom K.M. Inam Pal, Pakistan Ricardo Palao, Spain Vinidh Paleri, United Kingdom Michael Palese, United States Norbert Pallua, Germany Manas Panigrahi, India Theodossis S Papavramidis, Greece Amit S Parasnis, INDIA Pauline H. Park, United States Fazl Qadir Parray, India Simon Paterson-Brown, United Kingdom Sujata Patil, United States Nadia Peparini, Italy Benjamin Perakath, United Kingdom Bettina Pfannmueller, Germany Michael Ryan Phillips, United States Gabriele Piffaretti, Italy Sheilla Pinjani, Pakistan Andre Planes, France Siddharth Prakash, United States Manousos-Georgios Pramateftakis, United Kingdom Allen M. Putterman, United States Jawaid Naeem Qureshi, Pakistan Marco Raffaelli, Italy Nicholas Raison, United Kingdom Shahzad G. Raja, United Kingdom Parameswaran Rajeev, Singapore Venkatesh Rangarajan, India Kandiah Raveendran, Malaysia John H Reeves, Australia Jean Marc Regimbeau, France Malcolm Kenneth Robinson, United States Selwyn Rogers, United States Simon Rogers, United Kingdom Jan D. Rompe, Germany Richard David Rosin, Barbados Gaurav Roy, India Sergio Russo, Italy Michel Pompeu Barros Oliveira Sá, Brazil Aly Saber, EGYPT Oren Sagher, United States Reza F. Saidi, United States George Sakorafas, Greece Kareem Salhiyyah, United Kingdom Sundeep Saluja, India Mahesh B Sambhus, India Anantha Vijay Raghavan Santhanam, United States Paulo Dias Santos, Brazil Ramanathan Saranga Bharathi, India Christobel Mary Saunders, Australia Wolfgang Schaden, Austria Volker Schmitz, Germany David F. Schneider, United States Anne K. Schuckman, United States Roderich E. Schwarz, United States Lai-Chu See, Taiwan Vladimir Semiglazov, Russian Federation Nick Sevdalis, United Kingdom Ashok Shaha, United States M Shahzad Shamim, Pakistan Aryeh Shander, United States John Shaw, Canada Zhongmin Shi, China Yusuke Shibuya, Japan Jean François Shields, Canada Yusuke Shimizu, Japan Shailesh Shrikhande, India Ricard Simo, United Kingdom Christopher Skilbeck, United Kingdom Dominic Alexander James Slade, United Kingdom Pim Sloots, Netherlands Alfredas Smailys, Lithuania

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Marc Smaldone, United States Martin Smith, South Africa Akshay Sood, United States David Soybel, United States Sharon Stein, United States Joel D Stitzel, United States Alexei V. Svetlikov, Russian Federation Ian D Swain, United Kingdom Andrew Cree Swift, United Kingdom Tara Symonds, United Kingdom Seiichi Takenoshita, Japan Sichuang Tan, China Matt Tector, United States Sergej Thiele, Germany Richard Thiele, Germany Mangesh A Thorat, United Kingdom Neil Samuel Tolley, United Kingdom Antonio José Torres, Spain Matteo Tozzi, Italy Jose G. Tralhao, Portugal Tunku Sara Tunku Ahmad, Malaysia Christine Tunon de Lara, France Shinya Uchino, Japan Venkatesha K Udupa, Ireland Tehemton Udwadia, India Ali Uzunkoy, Turkey Yash Pradeep Vaidya, India Jayant S Vaidya, United Kingdom Dirk J. van der Windt, United States Oliver Varban, United States Kevin Varty, United Kingdom Baskaran Vasudevan, India

Marcel B M Verheij, Netherlands Stella Vig, United Kingdom Hector Vilca-Melendez, United Kingdom Axel von Herbay, United Kingdom Simon Wakefield, United Kingdom Gui Wang, Australia Ching-Jen Wang, Taiwan Mudassir Maqbool Wani, India Imtiaz A Wani, India Jon O Wee, United States Zhang Wei, China Martin Ross Weiser, United States Elroy Patrick Weledji, Cameroon Tim Gabe Williams, United Kingdom Shandra Wilson, United States J. Stuart Wolf Jr., United States Athanasios Xanthis, Greece Zhu Xishan, China Hidekazu Yamamoto, United Kingdom Jui-Yung Yang, Taiwan Usman Yaqoob, United States Daniel Dante Yeh, United States Selcuk Yucel, Turkey Alaattin Yurt, Turkey Hugo Zandalazini, Argentina Jan V. Zedenius, Sweden Robert Zhao, China Jun Zhong, China Oded Zmora, Israel Rukhsana Wamiq Zuberi, Pakistan Nicholas Zyromski, United States

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