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Reviewer acknowledgements 2016

The editors and staff of BMC Gastroenterology 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).

F Abantanga, Ghana

Yasushi Adachi, Japan

Oyedele Adeyi, Canada

Syeda Afroze, US

Jan Egil Afset, Norway

Abhishek Aggarwal, US

Sinead Aherne, Ireland

Sushil Ahlawat, US

Zohair Ahmed, US

Badr Al Bawardy, US

Raja Affendi Raja Ali, Malaysia

Behrooz Alizadeh, Netherlands

Marco Allaix, Italy

Stuart Amateau, US

Kamal Amin, Saudi Arabia

Javier Ampuero, Spain

Anil Anand, India

Rahul Anand, US

Theodoros Androutsakos, Greece

Stavros Antoniou, Greece

Makoto Arai, Japan

Mustafa Arain, US

Zubin Arora, US

Oyekoya Ayonrinde, Australia

Oliver Bachmann, Germany

Michael O Baclig, Philippines

Rupa Banerjee, India

Snigdha Banerjee, US

Chang Seok Bang, South Korea

Aurelie Bannay, France

Varenka Barbero, Mexico

Anushka Baruah, US

Sonali Barwe, US

Mohammad Bashashati, Canada

Fateh Bazerbachi, US

Massimo Bellini, Italy

William Bennett, US

A Benson, Israel

Dominik Bettenworth, Denmark

Mihailo Bezmarevic, Serbia

Federico Biagi, Italy

Chhagan Bihari, India

C Thomas Bock, Germany

Mohamed Bouattour, France

Guillaume Bouguen, France

Christopher Bowlus, US

Stefan Breitenstein, Switzerland

Stephen Brennan, New Zealand

Charlène Brochard, France

Andrew Brock, US

Christa Buechler, Germany

Lukas Buendgens, Germany

Anthony Buisson, France

Jason Burkhead, US

Nick Burr, UK

Jonathan Buscaglia, US

György Miklós Buzás, Hungary

Sara Campos, Portugal

Dengfeng Cao, US

Nicola Caporaso, Italy

Simona Cardaropoli, Italy

Nicholas Carman, Canada

Philip M Carpenter, US

Victor Casillas, US

Anna Casselbrant, Sweden

Sandrine Castelain, France

Eric Chak, US

Chi Chan, US

Heyson Chan, Hong Kong

Wei-Lun Chang, Taiwan

Sally Chappell, UK

Jun Chen, China

Chieh-Chang Chen, Taiwan

Jiann-Hwa Chen, Taiwan

Ming-Jen Chen, Taiwan

Ping-Hsien Chen, Taiwan

Hsiu-Chi Cheng, Taiwan

Lindsey Childs-Kean, US

Sridhar Chilimuri, US

Thirunavukkarasu Chinnasamy, India

King-Wah Chiu, Taiwan

Han Mo Chiu, Taiwan

Cheng-Hsin Chu, Taiwan

Jaime Chu, US

Chen Shuan Chung, Taiwan

Irene Coati, Italy

Jennifer Cohn, US

Jason Coombes, UK

Megan Cooper, US

Arif Cosar, Turkey

Adrian Cummins, Australia

Karen Curtin, US

BAN Daisuke, Japan

Roberta D'Ambrosio, Italy

Nihar Ranjan Dash, India

Paul Dawson, US

Andrew Day, Australia

Roberto de Franchis, Italy

Jennifer Debruyn, Canada

Jean Charles Delchier, France

Renumathy Dhanasekaran, US

Stefano Di Biase, US

David Diehl, US

Romina Dieli Crimi, Spain

Daniel Dim, US

Werner Dolak, Austria

Quanjiang Dong, China

Amy Downing, UK

Susanne Drechsler, Austria

Sharon Dudley, US

Jannette Dufour, US

Dan Dumitrascu, Romania

Lynn Dustin, UK

Shanta Dutta, India

Adam Dziki, Poland

Amosy E M'Koma, US

Dayna Early, US

Piotr Eder, Poland

Tim Eglinton, New Zealand

Laurent Ehrlich, US

Kevin El-Hayek, United Arab Emirates

Abdul Elkadri, Canada

Magdy El-Salhy, Norway

Askin Erdogan, Turkey

Meltem Ergun, Turkey

Elsa Fabbretti, Slovenia

Per G Farup, Norway

Dechun Feng, US

Fumin Feng, China

Peter Ferenci, Austria

Conrado Fernandez Rodriguez, Spain

Derek Foster, US

Jacob Freedman, Sweden

Michael Freemark, US

Catherine Frenette, US

Ho Fuang, Malaysia

Lindsey G Albenberg, US

Francesca Galuppini, Italy

Maria Garcia-Gil, Spain

Manuela Gariboldi, Italy

Balazs Gaszner, Hungary

Christopher L Gentile, US

Sotirios Georgopoulos, Greece

Henning Gerke, US

Reza Ghassemifar, Australia

Cinzia Giacometti, Italy

Alain Gobert, US

Oscar G Gómez, US

Raul Gonzalez, US

Takuji Gotoda, Japan

Esmée Grobbee, Netherlands

Xavier Guitart, Spain

Rong Jun Guo, US

Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Nepal

Arjun Gupta, US

C Gutschow, Switzerland

Stanisław Hać, Poland

Luciana Haddad, Brazil

Chad Hall, US

Oleh Haluszka, US

Tianquan Han, China

Ming-Lun Han, Taiwan

Ross Hansen, Australia

Paul Henderson, UK

Fernando Herbella, Brazil

Tiberiu Hershcovici, US

Yves Horsmans, Belgium

Chien-Ning Hsu, Taiwan

vivian huang, Canada

Jimi Huh, South Korea

Yik Ian, Malaysia

Akira Imoto, Japan

Osamu Inatomi, Japan

S Isaji, Japan

Molly Jacob, India

Raika Jamali, Iran

Solachuddin Jauhari Arief Ichwan, Malaysia

Zhao-Yan Jiang, China

Mi-Zu Jiang, China

Humberto Jijon, Canada

Tatehiro Kagawa, Japan

Alisan Kahraman, Germany

Y Kakeji, Japan

Alexander Kaltenborn, Germany

Tatsuo Kanda, Japan

Wei-Yu Kao, Taiwan

Naoya Kato, Japan

Simon Keely, Australia

Paul Kelly, UK

Gwang Ha Kim, South Korea

Oliver Koch, Austria

S Komatsu, Japan

Shin-Ichi Kosugi, Japan

Somashekar Krishna, US

Suneeta Krishnareddy, US

Anja Kühl, Germany

Nilay Kumar, US

Chikara Kunisaki, Japan

Andy Kuo, Australia

Juozas Kupcinskas, Lithuania

S Kuroda, Japan

Kalle Kurppa, Finland

Moe Kyaw, Hong Kong

Brian Lam, US

Antonietta Lamazza, Italy

Andreas Larentzakis, Greece

Ben Lawrence, New Zealand

Teng-Yu Lee, Taiwan

Hyun Woong Lee, South Korea

PC Lee, Taiwan

Simon Leedham, UK

Daniel Lemberg, Australia

Hwong Ruey Leow, Malaysia

Daniel Leske, Germany

Tiangang Li, US

Carlos H Lifschitz, Argentina

Joseph Lim, US

Michael Lin, Australia

Shwu-Bin Lin, Taiwan

Alexander Link, Germany

Wai-Kit Lo, US

David Lo, US

Emanuele  Lo Menzo, US

Josefa Leon Lopez, Spain

Ligong Lu, China

Charles E Lucas, US

Claudio Luchini, Italy

Samuel Lundin, Sweden

Glen Lutchman, US

Ying Lv, China

Benjamin Maasoumy, Germany

Teresa Macarulla, Spain

Graeme Macdonald, Australia

Giovanni Maconi, Italy

Andrea Mafficini, Italy

Sanja Klobucar Majanovic, Croatia

Avik Majumdar, UK

Shahid Malik, US

Lisa Malter, US

Vivek Mangla, India

Ocisková Marie, Czech Republic

Irene Martinucci, Italy

Atsushi Masamune, Japan

A Masclee, Netherlands

Daisuke Masuda, Japan

Joanna Matowicka-Karna, Poland

Gianluca Matteoli, Belgium

Aurelio Mauro, Italy

Dimitrios Mavridis, Greece

Shannon McCall, US

Valentina Medici, US

Victor Medina Lopez, Mexico

Rohini Mehta, US

Panu Mentula, Finland

Ahmed Messallam, US

Shivani Mhatre, US

Erasmo Miele, Italy

Ivana Mikolasevic, Croatia

Pramod Mishra, India

Benjamin Misselwitz, Switzerland

Mario Mondelli, Italy

Tom Moreels, Belgium

Fuyuhiko Motoi, Japan

Quais Mujawar, Canada

Anne Muller, Swaziland

Khalid Mumtaz, US

Takashi Muraki, Japan

Satu Mustjoki, Finland

Mohamed Mutalib, UK

Anna Myleus, Sweden

Perumal Nagarajan, India

Sajan Jiv Singh Nagpal, US

T Namikawa, Japan

Gopeshwar Narayan, India

Neeraj Narula, Canada

Abdulrasheed Nasir, Nigeria

Victor Navas, Spain

George Notas, Greece

Concepción Núñez, Spain

Natalia Nuño-Lambarri, Mexico

Claire O'Brien, Australia

M Ohashi, Japan

Lena Öhman, Sweden

Shiro Oka, Japan

Ryuichi Okamoto, Japan

Sofia Ornelas-Arroyo, Mexico

Mohamed Othman, US

Lavi Oud, US

Nadia Ovchinsky, US

Yesim Oztas, Turkey

Elena Palma, UK

Vincenzo Palmieri, Italy

Mala Pande, US

Eleonora Patsenker, Switzerland

Sharon Pattison, New Zealand

Lai Siew Mei Pauline, Malaysia

Ulrich Peitz, Germany

Kimberly J Perez, US

Marcello Persico, Italy

Greoge Philips, US

Guillaume Piessen, France

Sylvie Pillet, France

Jana Pindjakova, Czech Republic

Joseph Pisegna, US

Rapat Pittayanon, Thailand

Marco Pizzi, Italy

Daniel Pohl, Switzerland

Carsten Posovszky, Germany

Biju Pottakkat, India

Varayu Prachayakul, Thailand

Jan Preiss, Germany

Michele Pritchard, US

Anupama Pujar, India

Liang Qiao, Australia

Gang Qin, China

Radhakrishna Rao, US

Leon Raskin, US

Stefano Realdon, Italy

Pradeep Rebala, India

Fabian Reche, France

Sara Regnér, Sweden

Mentore Ribolsi, Italy

Sumera Rizvi, US

Riccardo Robertis, Italy

Monica Robotin, Australia

Yishai Ron, Israel

Jatin Roper, US

Jonas Rosendahl, Germany

Robert Roses, US

Edoardo Rosso, Italy

Sanchari Roy, Germany

Amandine Rubio, France

Bryan Rudolph, US

Maria Russell, US

Clifford S Cho, US

David Sachar, US

Efstratios Saliakellis, Greece

Sundeep Saluja, India

Okello Samson, Uganda

Charles Samson, US

Fuat Saner, Germany

Veena Sangwan, US

Deborah Saraggi, Italy

Souvik Sarkar, US

David Sass, US

Sanjaya Satapathy, US

Annalisa Schiepatti, Italy

Robert Schierwagen, Germany

Boris Sepesi, US

Michael Sey, Canada

Amber Shada, US

Vanessa M Shami, US

Piyush Sharma, US

Philip Sherman, Canada

Hai yun Shi, China

Gamal El-Sayed Shiha, Egypt

Elham Shirvani, Germany

Masako Shomura, Japan

Supriya Shrivastava, Singapore

Douglas Simonetto, US

Mendel Singer, US

Harkirat Singh, US

Preet Paul Singh, US

Stephanie Sisley, US

Klas Sjöberg, Sweden

Walter E Smalley Jr, US

Eric Smith, Australia

Sinead Smith, Ireland

Petur Snaebjornsson, Netherlands

Antonio Solinas, Italy

Amornyotin Somchai, Thailand

Jayaprakash Sreenarasimhaiah, US

Sriganesh Srihari, Australia

Antoni Stadnicki, Poland

Douglas Stairs, US

Heidi Staudacher, UK

Christian Staufner, Germany

Lars Stenhammar, Sweden

Brendon Stiles, US

DL Stippel, Germany

Mitsushige Sugimoto, Japan

Salvatore Sutti, Italy

James Tabibian, US

Frank Tacke, Germany

Wei-Chen Tai, Taiwan

Toshihisa Takeuchi, Japan

Bart Takkenberg, Netherlands

Benjamin Tan, US

Michele Tana, US

Giovanni Tarantino, Italy

Alex Tarr, UK

Sooraj Tejaswi, US

Yasuo Terauchi, Japan

Rolf Teschke, Germany

Traci Testerman, US

Victor Thijssen, Netherlands

Kirsten Tillisch, US

Prof Temel Tirkes, US

Salvatore Tolone, Italy

Nori Tolosa de Talamoni, Argentina

Yoko Tomita, Australia

Van-Hoang Tong, Germany

John Triantafillidis, Greece

Ping-Huei Tseng, Taiwan

William W Tseng, US

Pamela Tuma, US

Amy Tyberg, US

Koji Uchino, Japan

Noriya Uedo, Japan

Holm Uhlig, UK

Shahid Ullah, Australia

Shiro Urayama, US

Nathalie H Urrunaga, US

Barbara Valdivia-Correa, Mexico

John F Valentine, US

Niels Vande Casteele, US

Fernando Veloso, Portugal

James Venturini, Brazil

RC Verdonk, Netherlands

Michael Vieth, Germany

Alessandro Vitale, Italy

Veronika Vymetalkova, Czech Republic

Homan Wai, US

Wen-Lun Wang, Taiwan

Yen-Po Wang, Taiwan

David Wang, US

Maggie Wang, Hong Kong

Zhonghua Wang, China

Chikako Watanabe, Japan

Christopher Weber, US

Shu Chen Wei, Taiwan

Ulrich Weiss, Germany

Tao Wen, China

Thomas Wex, Germany

Els Wieten, Netherlands

Markus Wilken, Germany

Andrzej Wincewicz, Poland

Eytan Wine, Canada

John Winston, US

John Wong, Hong Kong

Martin Wong, Hong Kong

Ben Woolbright, US

Nan Wu, US

Deng-Chyang Wu, Taiwan

Ka Kei Wu, Hong Kong

Wei Wu, China

Fang Yan, US

Byong Duk Ye, South Korea

Abdullah Yeniova, Turkey

Kidist Yimam, US

Christopher Young, Australia

Joanne Young, Australia

Jessica Yu, US

Li-Fen Yu, China

Cyrla Zaltman, Brazil

Zhou Zhi-wei, China

Maria Grazia Zizzo, Italy

Nicholas Zyromski, US

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