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Reviewer acknowledgements 2016

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

Alireza Abdi, Iran

Khalid Aboalshamat, Saudi Arabia

Abdelrahman Abushouk, Egypt

Akisidadek Afoko, Ghana

Tauseef Ahmad, Saudi Arabia

Rola Ajjawi, Australia

Morhaf Al Achkar, USA

Khalid Al Surimi, Saudi Arabia

Dara Albert, USA

Mohamed Al-Eraky, Saudi Arabia

Haris Ali, USA

Syeda Ali, Pakistan

Alfatih Aljafari, Saudi Arabia

Hanan Al-Kadri, Saudi Arabia

Aa Al-Khateeb, Saudi Arabia

Luis Almaguer, Cuba

Aisha Alosail, Saudi Arabia

Anthony Amalba, Ghana

Daniel Amoako-Sakyi, Ghana

Min An, China

Sven Anders, Germany

Vivienne Anderson, New Zealand

Adriano De Oliveira Andrade, Brazil

Mavilde Arantes, Portugal

Elize Archer, South Africa

Julian Archer, UK

Douglas Archibald, Canada

Stephen Aronoff, USA

Andleeb Arshad, Kuwait

Elpida Artemiou, Saint Kitts And Nevis

Kenneth Ashwell, Australia

Stacie Attrill, Australia

Myo Nyein Aung, Thailand

Francesco Auxilia, Italy

Maria Manuel Azevedo, Portugal

Palav Babaria, USA

Laila Bahammam, Saudi Arabia

Yun Bai, China

Lubna Baig, Canada

Chinthaka Balasooriya, Australia

Patrick Barlow, USA

Mark Barrow, New Zealand

Emma Bartle, Australia

Ankur Barua, Nepal

Iman Basheti, Jordan

Syeda Batul, USA

Daniel Bauer, Switzerland

Martin Baumann, Germany

Margaret Bearman, Australia

Denise Bee, UK

Arnau Benet, USA

Anne-Marie Bergh, South Africa

Anthony Berman, USA

Joao Bessa, Portugal

James Best, Australia

Deepa Bhat, India

Justin Bilszta, Australia

Benjamin Blatt, USA

Julia Blitz, South Africa

John R Blosnich, USA

Phil Blyth, New Zealand

Sylvain Boet, Canada

Katrien Bombeke, Belgium

Keith Boniface, USA

Jonathan Bonnet, USA

Raphaël Bonvin, Switzerland

Thomas Booth, UK

El Arbi Bouaiti, Morocco

David Boud, Australia

Roseanna Bourke, New Zealand

Michael Bowden, Australia

Elizabeth Bradley, USA

Paul R Brandon, USA

Jan Breckwoldt, Switzerland

Jarle Breivik, Norway

Richard Brightwell, Australia

James J Brokaw, USA

Caragh Brosnan, Australia

George Brown, UK

Helen Buchanan, South Africa

Gregory M Bump, USA

Vanessa Burch, South Africa

Bryan Burford, UK

Annette Burgess, Australia

Marta Buszewicz, USA

Tudor Calinici, Romania

Rose Calixte, USA

Douglas Campbell, Canada

Depin Cao, China

Claudio Capelli, UK

Jan Carline, USA

Sandra Carr, Australia

Petra Casey, USA

Dario Cecilio Fernandes, Netherlands

Bernard Cerutti, Switzerland

Mary Chambers, UK

Cliffton Chan, Australia

Madawa Chandratilake, Sri Lanka

Yen-Yuan Chen, Taiwan

Julie Chen, Hong Kong

Carrie Chen, USA

Chien-Hsu Chen, Taiwan

Keng Sheng Chew, Malaysia

Neville Chiavaroli, Australia

Tobias Chirwa, South Africa

Yen-Lin Chiu, Taiwan

Chee Kdid Chiu, Malaysia

Calvin Chou, USA

Meyrick Chow, Hong Kong

Obiageli Chukwudum, UK

Jennifer Cleland, UK

Lynn Clouder, UK

Ricardo Coentre, Portugal

Susan Coffin, USA

Carlos Collares, Netherlands

Jenny Conder, New Zealand

Kirsten Connan, Australia

Sandy Cook, Singapore

David Cook, USA

Simon Cooper, USA

Manuel J Costa, Portugal

Claudio Costantino, Italy

Kimberly Coulton, Australia

Ian Couper, South Africa

Alison Cowley, UK

Roslyn Crampton, Australia

Sarah Croker, Australia

Pat Croskerry, Canada

Rodney Crutcher, Canada

David Cumin, New Zealand

Philip Custer, USA

Eugene Custers, Netherlands

Ana Da Silva, UK

Rune Dall Jensen, Denmark

Esther G S Daniel, Malaysia

Kay Daniels, USA

Mary Dankbaar, Netherlands

Walter De  Caro, Italy

Michael De Vibe, Norway

Elizabeth Dean, Canada

Deanna Deanna, Canada

Clare Delany, Australia

Dianne Delva, Canada

Marcel D'Eon, Canada

Leandro Diehl, Brazil

Janine Dizon, Australia

Patricia Dobkin, Canada

Eva Doherty, Ireland

Diana Dolmans, Netherlands

Tyrone Donnon, Canada

Catherine Doody, Ireland

Tim Dornan, Netherlands

Caroline Dorsen, USA

Valerie Dory, USA

Lachlan Doughney, Australia

Paul Drew, UK

Stewart Dunn, Australia

Samuel Edelbring, Sweden

Anna Edmondson, USA

Daniel Edwards, Australia

Jennifer Edwards-Johnson, USA

Tony Egan, New Zealand

Maguy El Hajj, Qatar

Diann Eley, Australia

Maha Mohammed El-Tantawi, Saudi Arabia

Margaret Ann Elzubeir, UAE

Philip Esterhuizen, UK

Dason Evans, UK

Shaun Ewen, Australia

Joshua F  Nitsche, USA

Lorenzo Faggioni, USA

Angela Fan, Taiwan

Joseph Fantone, USA

Susan Farrell, USA

David Feldstein, USA

Paul Ferrinho, Portugal

James Fisher, UK

Ian Fletcher, UK

Vicki Flood, Australia

Cornelia Fluit, Netherlands

Eleanor Flynn, Australia

Kirsty Foster, Australia

Adriana Foster, USA

Janneke Frambach, Netherlands

Toby Freeman, Australia

Jan C Frich, Norway

Daniel Furmedge, UK

Sue Fyfe, Australia

Jennie De Gagne, USA

Peter Gallagher, Nigeria

Hong Gao, USA

Jayne Garner, UK

Itai Gat, Israel

Carolyn Gates, New Zealand

Paul Gavaza, USA

Albena Gayef, Turkey

Bas Geboers, Netherlands

Fasika Amdeslasie Gebrekirkos, Ethiopia

James A Geiling, USA

Anuradha Ghosh, USA

Donna Gillies, Australia

Conor Gilligan, Australia

Peter Gliatto, USA

Nadine Goeb, Germany

Adam Gordon, UK

Morris Gordon, UK

Kerry Goulston, Australia

Peter Grabowski, UK

Fiona Graham, New Zealand

Matthaeus Grasl, Austria

Pamela Grassau, Canada

Andy Gray, South Africa

Lionel Green-Thompson, South Africa

Barbara Griffin, Australia

Paul Grime, UK

Anthony Guerrero, USA

Bruno Guimarães, Portugal

Hasantha Gunasekera, Australia

William  Gunning, USA

Geney Gunston, South Africa

Ivan Hand, USA

Ailish Hannigan, Ireland

Inam Haq, Australia

Cynthia Haq, USA

Rachel Hardeman, USA

Spencer Harpe, USA

Asra Hashmi, USA

Craig Hassed, Australia

Rosemarie Hatala, Canada

Susan Hawken, New Zealand

Kamila Hawthorne, UK

Margaret Hay, Australia

Maria Hayfron-Benjamin, UK

Richard Hays, Australia

Lara Hazelton, Canada

David Healey, Australia

Inga Hege, Germany

Marcus Henning, New Zealand

Beverly Henry, USA

Donald Hilty, USA

Emmet Hirsch, USA

Yvonne Hodgson, Australia

Sebastian Hoefer, Germany

Kimberly Hoffman, USA

Karri Holley, USA

Claire Hooker, Australia

Anita Horvath, Australia

Jianlin Hou, China

Patricia Hrynchak, Canada

Alexa Hryniuk, USA

Wendy Hu, Australia

Chin-Chou Huang, Taiwan

Patricia Hudelson, Switzerland

Nicky Hudson, Australia

Kathryn Huggett, USA

Christine Hughes, Canada

Daniel Huhn, Germany

Michael Hulme, USA

Kang Huo, China

Kathleen Huth, USA

Simon Igo, UK

Rintaro Imafuku, Japan

Michelle Irving, Australia

Jennifer Irwin, Canada

Karin E Isaksson Ro, Norway

Waguih Ishak, USA

Maura Iversen, USA

Stanley Jacobson, USA

Mohammad Jalili, Iran

Halszka Jarodzka, Netherlands

Hazel Jenkins, Australia

Alicia Jenkins, Australia

Ramalingam Jeyshankar, India

Vikram Jha, UK

Karin Jodlowski-Tan, Australia

Christopher Jones, UK

Christine Jorm, Australia

Tanisha Jowsey, New Zealand

Jisun Jung, Hong Kong

Noelle Junod Perron, Switzerland

Susanne Kalén, USA

Andre Karger, Germany

Christiana Kartsonaki, UK

Yang Ke, China

Iain Keenan, UK

Carolina Keijsers, Netherlands

Jamie Kellar, Canada

Karen Kelly-Blake, USA

Athol Kent, South Africa

Farzad Khiavi, Iran

Umatul Khoiriyah, Indonesia

Jan Kiesewetter, Germany

James Kilgour, UK

Carolyn King, Australia

Maggie Kirk, UK

Zalika Klemenc-Ketis, Slovenia

Matthias Knobe, Germany

Jonathan Knott, Australia

Ellen Kok, Netherlands

Stathis Konstantinidis, UK

Amanda Kost, USA

Mila Kostic, USA

Daniel Kotz, Germany

Markus Krautter, Germany

Ambigga Devi Krishnapillai, Malaysia

Thomas Kropmans, Ireland

Marieke Kruidering, USA

Sebastian Kuhn, Germany

Koshila Kumar, Australia

Arunaz Kumar, Australia

Viji Kurup, USA

Rashmi Kusurkar, Netherlands

Rick Ladyshewsky, Australia

Nai Ming Lai, Malaysia

Fiona Lake, Australia

Meghan Lane-Fall, USA

Marianna Lanoue, USA

Jason Last, Ireland

Elizabeth Lazzara, USA

Yoonju Lee, South Korea

Melissa Lee, Australia

Ali Leijen, Estonia

Michael Leitman, USA

Paolo Leombruni, Italy

Jimmie Leppink, Netherlands

Linda Lewin, USA

Blossom Lin, Taiwan

Rebecca Lipner, USA

Garrett Ren-Jie Liu, Taiwan

Lucylynn Lizarondo, Australia

Craig Lockwood, Australia

Jocelyn Lockyer, Canada

Stephen Loftus, USA

Patricia Logan, Australia

Lia Logio, USA

Benjamin Lok, USA

Kiki Lombarts, Netherlands

Lawrence Loo, USA

Jingyan Lu, China

Giancarlo Lucchetti, Brazil

Karen Luetsch, Australia

Rebecca Lufler, USA

Sinead Lydon, Ireland

Jennifer Lyon, USA

Monica Lypson, USA

Muna Maarafiya, Qatar

Imad Maatouk, Germany

Martin Macdowell, USA

Mohi Eldin Magzoub, Saudi Arabia

Zaleha Abdullah Mahdy, Malaysia

Cornelia Mahler, Germany

Bunmi Malau-Aduli, Australia

Moira Maley, Australia

Bente Malling, Denmark

Bente Vigh Malling, Denmark

Stephen Maloney, Australia

Logan Manikam, UK

Katri Manninen, Sweden

Hani J Marcus, UK

Brahm Marjadi, Australia

Italo Masiello, Sweden

Brian Mavis, USA

Maliza Mawardi, Malaysia

Win May, USA

Laura Mazer, USA

Lynn McBain, New Zealand

Louella McCarthy, Australia

Geoffrey McColl, Australia

Meghan McConnell, Canada

Linda McCreary, USA

Michael McDonough, Australia

Richard McGee, USA

Thomas McGowan, UK

Deirdre McGrath, Ireland

Eileen McKinlay, New Zealand

Danette McKinley, USA

John McLachlan, UK

Michelle McLean, Australia

Fiona McMaster, UK

Nancy McNaughton, Canada

Adrian Meder, Germany

Annette Mercer, Australia

Tarig Merghani, Sudan

Geoffery Mitchell, Australia

Tobias Moczko, Germany

Rebekah Moles, Australia

Andreas Möltner, Germany

Zena Moore, Ireland

Shabir Moosa, South Africa

Christopher P Morley, USA

Penny Moss, Australia

Patricia Mullan, USA

Judy Mullan, Australia

Tohru Murakami, Japan

David Musick, USA

Erisa Mwaka, Uganda

Shanika Nanayakkara, Australia

Laeth Nasir, USA

Corina Naughton, UK

Abedini Nauzley, USA

Jonathan Newbury, Australia

Jenny Newton, Australia

Somashekhar Nimbalkar, India

Akira Nishisaki, USA

Markus Nivala, Germany

Lorraine Noble, UK

Birgitte Nørgaard, Denmark

Robert O'Brien, Australia

Amy Odom, USA

Joseph F O'Donnell, USA

Asela Olupeliyawa, Australia

Deborah O'Mara, Australia

Steven L Orebaugh, USA

Cesar Orsini, UK

Caroline Owen, Australia

Nilgun Ozcakar, Turkey

Elisabeth Paice, UK

Maria Paiva, Ghana

Jorge Pales, Spain

Alvisa Palese, Italy

Penny Paliadelis, Australia

Edward Palmer, Australia

Per Palmgren, Sweden

Outi Palomäki, Finland

Mariusz Panczyk, Poland

Yoon Soo Park, USA

Hoonki Park, South Korea

Danielle Parrish, USA

Jacob Pearce, Australia

David Pegues, USA

Jonathan H Penm, USA

Pamela Pennington, Guatemala

Virtudes Pérez-Jover, Spain

Meredith Perry, New Zealand

Ray Peterson, Australia

Emil Petrusa, USA

Anna Pettersson, Sweden

Ingrid Philibert, USA

Ralph Pinnock, Australia

Katherine C Pollard, UK

Patsie Polly, Australia

Molly Polverento, USA

Sari Ponzer, Sweden

Phillippa Poole, New Zealand

David Power, USA

Kalyani Premkumar, Canada

Jelle T Prins, Netherlands

Amy Prunuske, USA

Sue Pullon, New Zealand

Vijaykumar Rajput, USA

Nicholas Ralph, Australia

Daryl Ramai, Grenada

Christopher Ramnanan, Canada

Fiza Rashid-Doubell, Bahrain

Elena Ratschen, UK

Saleem Razack, Canada

Jennifer Reath, Australia

Szabo Rebecca, Australia

Gilbert Reibnegger, Austria

Kate Reid, Australia

Lynette Reid, Canada

Jeremy Richards, USA

Boyd Richards, USA

Ajay Risal, Nepal

Tracy E Robinson, Australia

Kem Rogers, Canada

Gary Rogers, Australia

Lisa Rollins, USA

James Rourke, Canada

Sara Rubinelli, Switzerland

Joy Rudland, New Zealand

Jane Runnacles, UK

Miriam Rüsseler, Germany

Anna Ryan, Australia

Olle Jane Z Sahler, USA

Abdus Salam, Malaysia

Helen Salisbury, UK

Dario Sambunjak, Croatia

John Sandars, UK

MÃ¥rten Sandberg, Norway

Sally Santen, USA

Adam Sawatsky, USA

Marina Sawdon, UK

Christian Scheffer, Germany

Iris Schleicher, Germany

Ralf Schmidmaier, Germany

Scarpa Schoeman, South Africa

Hanna Schröder, Germany

Charles Schubert, USA

Nikolai Schuelper, Germany

Lambert Schuwirth, Australia

Theresa Schwarz, Germany

Karen Scott, Australia

Lukas Seifert, Germany

Tarun Sen Gupta, Australia

Ana Sergio Da Silva, UK

Patricia Sexton, USA

Sami Shaban, UAE

Lion Shahab, UK

Sarah Shepherd, UK

Sowmya Shetty, Australia

Rita Shiang, USA

Renee Shield, USA

Mandana Shirazi, Iran

Boaz Shulruf, Australia

Matt Sibbald, Canada

Zarrin Siddiqui, Australia

Frederick Sierles, USA

Branko Sijnja, New Zealand

Charlotte Silen, Sweden

Anne Simmenroth-Nayda, Germany

Christopher Simon, Canada

Veena Singaram, South Africa

Tony Skapetis, Australia

Margot Skinner, New Zealand

Ruth Sladek, Australia

J David Smith, Canada

Janie Smith, Australia

Mitchell Smith, Australia

Susan F Smith, UK

Joanna Smith, UK

Lauren Snyder, USA

Heiko Spallek, Australia

Brian Spitzberg, USA

Cord Spreckelsen, Germany

Debbi Stanistreet, UK

Björn Steffen, Germany

Karen Stegers-Jager, Netherlands

Malcolm Steinberg, Canada

Jost Steinhäuser, Germany

Philipp Stieger, Germany

Terry Stratton, USA

Richard Street, USA

Alison Sturrock, UK

Charles Su, Canada

Virpi Sulosaari, Finland

Johanne Sundby, Norway

Brian Symon, Australia

Joanna Tai, Australia

Kenzo Takahashi, Japan

Benjie Tang, UK

Marie Tarrant, Hong Kong

Natalie Taylor, Australia

Pedro Teixeira, Portugal

Ara Tekian, USA

Andrew Teodorczuk, UK

Valentin Terhoeven, Germany

Trevor Thompson, UK

Andrea Thompson, New Zealand

Julie Tilson, USA

Mark Timmons, USA

Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler, USA

Daniel Tolks, Germany

Jane Toms, UK

Maree Toombs, Australia

Anne Topping, Qatar

Marc Triola, USA

Mark Trottier, USA

Shih-Li Tsai, Taiwan

Athanasios Tsalatsanis, USA

Mike Tweed, New Zealand

Reidar Tyssen, Norway

Penney Upton, Australia

Jinan Usta, Lebanon

Daniël Van Nijlen, Belgium

Wilbert Van Panhuis, USA

Sandrij Van Schaik, USA

Gerrit Van Schalkwyk, USA

Marta Van Zanten, USA

Gary Velan, Australia

Petra Verdonk, Netherlands

Martin Veysey, Australia

Laura Villa-Torres, USA

Rebecca Volpe, USA

Alexander W Chessman, USA

Michaela Wagner-Menghin, Austria

Lucie Walters, Australia

Merrilyn Walton, Australia

Benita Jeanne Walton-Moss, USA

Margaret Walton-Roberts, Canada

Helena Ward, Australia

Terri Warholak, USA

Val Wass, UK

Chris Watling, Canada

Simon Watmough, UK

Bernadette Watson, Hong Kong

Evelyn Watson, UK

Kelly Watt, Australia

Christine Wearne, Australia

Anne M Weggelaar-Jansen, Netherlands

Tracey Weiland, Australia

Andrea Wendling, USA

Colin West, USA

Olwyn Westwood, UK

Angela Wetzel, USA

Sophia Whitman, UK

Marjo Wijnen-Meijer, Netherlands

Deana Wilbanks, USA

Kerry Wilbur, Qatar

Clare Wilding, Australia

Simon Willcock, Australia

Ian Wilson, Australia

Leslie Wimsatt, USA Minor Outlying Islands

Jeffrey Wiseman, Canada

Liz Wolvaardt, South Africa

Diana Wood, UK

Timothy Wood, USA

Luke Woodham, UK

Robyn Woodward-Kron, Australia

Kaissar Cesar Yammine, UAE

Che-Ming Yang, Taiwan

Lingling Zhang, USA

Bin Zheng, Canada

Melody Zhifang Ni, UK

Stefan Zimmermann, Germany

Aleksander Zywot, Grenada

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