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Reviewer acknowledgements 2017

The editors and staff of BMC Pulmonary Medicine would like to warmly thank the reviewers whose comments helped to shape the journal, for their invaluable assistance with review of manuscripts in Volume 17 (2017).

Ian Adcock, UK

Olorunfemi Adetona, USA

Antonella Agodi, Italy

Anand Agrawal, India

Vassilis Aidinis, Greece

Daniel Ajona, Spain

Maxwell Akanbi, USA

Pınar Akın Kabalak, Turkey

Olayinka Akinwusi, Nigeria

Fatma Aktas, Turkey

Nobuhiro Akuzawa, Japan

Veronica Alfieri, Italy

Ertunc Altiok, Denmark

Gabriel Altit, Canada

Vishwa Amatya, Japan

Raghupathy Anchala, India

Erik Andersen, Denmark

Gail M. Annich, Canada

Emily Arden-Close, UK

A. Ariani, Italy

Samantha Aso, Spain

Luis Azevedo, Portugal

Anna Maria Azzini, Italy

Helena Backman, Sweden

Stefano Baglioni, Italy

Thomas Bahmer, Germany

Katherine Baines, Australia

Anurag Bajaj, USA

Christopher Baker, USA

Vikram Balakumar Balakumar, USA

Bruno Balbi, Italy

Sandra Baldacci, Italy

Elisabetta Balestro, Italy

Marc Baltzan, Canada

Niaz Banaei, USA

Cristina Barbara, Portugal

Carmen Barbas, Brazil

Declan Bates, UK

Hitesh Batra, USA

Salvatore Battaglia, Italy

Florent Baudin, France

Jose A. Bazan, USA

Christian Becker, USA

Jeremy Beitler, USA

Douglas Bell, USA

Scott Bell, Australia

Giacomo Bellani, Italy

Christina Bellinger, USA

Marta Benet Mora, Spain

Rajesh Bhagat, USA

Maneesh Bhargava, USA

Pankaj Bhavsar, UK

Angshu Bhowmik, UK

Sourin Bhuniya, India

Aneela Bidiwala, USA

Silvia Bielsa, Spain

Andras Bikov, Hungary

Colin Bingle, UK

Juliana Binti Jalaludin, Malaysia

Antonio Biondi, Italy

Davide Biondini, Italy

Robert Black, USA

Anders Blomberg, Sweden

Uffe Bødtger, Denmark

Mattia Boeri, Italy

Francesco Bonella, Germany

Sebastien Bonnet, Canada

Paola Borella, Italy

Lieuwe Bos, Netherlands

Ynuk Bosse, Canada

Graham Bothamley, UK

Jean-Philippe Bouchara, France

Arnaud Bourdin, France

Stephen Bourke, UK

Kyle Bramley, USA

Jens Bräunlich, Germany

Milliner Brendan, USA

Malcolm Brodlie, UK

David Brossier, France

Grzegorz Brozek, Poland

Christian Brülls, Denmark

Emanuela Bruscia, USA

Dario Bruzzese, Italy

Pierre-Regis Burgel, France

Cd Burger, USA

Catherine Ann Byrnes, New Zealand

Min Kwang Byun, South Korea

Laura Cacciani, Italy

Carlo Caffarelli, Italy

Alpaslan Çakan, Turkey

Myriam Calle Rubio, Spain

Antonio Calles, Spain

Brendan Canning, USA

Esteban Cano-Jiménez, Spain

Enric Carcereny, Spain

Felipe Cardenal, Spain

Tomas Carroll, Ireland

Paola Francesca Castellotti, Italy

Diego Castillo, Spain

Adrian Ceccato, Argentina

Mustafa Çelik, Turkey

Stefania Cerri, Italy

Vineet Chadha, India

Gin Tsen Chai, Singapore

James Chalmers, UK

James Chalmers, UK

Chih-Hao Chang, Taiwan

Jose Chatkin, Brazil

Arjun B. Chatterjee, USA

Prakash Chelladurai, Germany

Alex Chen, USA

Guoan Chen, USA

Zhihong Chen, China

Zhimin Chen, China

Ya-Jung Cheng, Taiwan

Marco Chilosi, Italy

Eusebi Chiner, Spain

Eusebi Chiner, Spain

Davide Chiumello, Italy

James Chmiel, UK

Jae Chol Choi, South Korea

Xue Ning Choo, Singapore

Fan Chung, UK

Saulius Cicènas, Lithuania

Aykut Cilli, Turkey

Catia Cilloniz, Spain

Rabec Claudio, France

Tom Clutton-Brock, UK

Adam Collison, Australia

Ariadna Conejero, Spain

Brendan Cooper, UK

Paul Corris, UK

Angelo Corsico, Italy

Will Creasy, UK

Fulvio Crippa, Italy

Paola Crivelli, Italy

Diana Crossley, UK

Joana Cruz, Portugal

Ye Cui, USA

Daniel Culver, USA

Anna Dahlman-Höglund, Sweden

Zhiyu Dai, USA

Priya Daniel, UK

Kaid Darwiche, Germany

Veronica Davalos, Spain

Giuseppina De Iaco, Italy

Frans H.C. De Jongh, Netherlands

Anthony De Soyza, UK

Nathan Dean, USA

Dawn Demeo, USA

Heleen Demeyer, Belgium

Gaetan Deslee, France

Fabiano Di Marco, Italy

Salvador Diaz Lobato, Spain

Javier Diaz-Mendoza, USA

Marta Diez, Spain

Javier De Miguel Díez, Spain

Michael Donahoe, USA

Liang Dong, China

Simone Dore, Italy

Peter Dorfmüller, France

Mark Dransfield, USA

Martin Dres, France

Marieke Duiverman, Netherlands

Jack Dummer, New Zealand

Carlos Echevarria, UK

Aydanur Ekici, Turkey

Magnus Ekstrom, Sweden

Souheil El-Chemaly, USA

Felicity Enders, USA

Bircan Erbas, Australia

Marta Erdal, Norway

Begum Ergan, Turkey

Gregory E. Erhabor, Nigeria

Erik Eriksen, Norway

Susanna Esposito, Italy

Sandrine Essouri, UK

Harrison Farber, USA

Shereen Farghaly, Egypt

Sylvia Costa Lima Farhat, Brazil

Lanfranco Fattorini, USA

Paola Faverio, Italy

Ademola Fawibe, Nigeria

John Ferguson, USA

Isis Fernandez, Germany

Giovanni Ferrara, Sweden

Stephen Field, Canada

Wojciech Filipiak, Austria

Simon Finch, UK

Aryeh Fischer, USA

David Fishwick, UK

Alessandro Fois, Italy

Robert Foronjy, USA

Matthew Foster, USA

Mark Frampton, USA

Peter Franklin, Australia

Daniel Franzen, Switzerland

Oren Fruchter, Israel

Sean Gaine, Ireland

Henning Gall, Germany

Vanessa Garcia Larsen, USA

Eric Garshick, USA

Stefano Gasparini, Italy

Stefano Gasparini, Italy

Maureen George, USA

Patrick Geraghty, USA

Ignacio Gil-Bazo, Spain

Francis Gilchrist, UK

Reda Girgis, USA

Nicole Goh, Australia

Monica Goldklang, USA

Jose Gomez-Villalobos, USA

Diederik Gommers, Netherlands

Clesio Gontijo-Amaral, Brazil

Oleg Gorelik, Israel

Joan Gornals, Spain

Philippe Goutorbe, France

Vikas Goyal, Australia

Brian Graham, Canada

Andrea Gramegna, Italy

Mike Gray, UK

Catherine Greene, Ireland

Andrew Greenhill, Australia

John Greenland, USA

Kevin Griffith, USA

Michelle Groome, South Africa

Ekkehard Grünig, Germany

Vagheggini Guido, Italy

Swati Gulati, USA

Mary Gulumian, South Africa

Andreas Günther, Germany

Ravi Gupta, India

Stephen Gurczynski, USA

David Habiel, USA

Ferry Hagen, Netherlands

Nigel J Hall, UK

Nathan Hambly, Canada

Masayuki Hanaoka, Japan

Iram Haq, UK

Kate Hardaker, Australia

Richard Harding, Australia

R. Scott Harris, USA

Richard Harrison, UK

Naoki Hasegawa, Japan

Philip Hasleton, UK

Tidi Hassan, Malaysia

Masaru Hatano, Japan

John Haughney, UK

Lystra Hayden, USA

Pieter-Paul W. Hekking, Netherlands

Peter Henry, Australia

Gonzalo Hernandez, Spain

Daniel L. Herr, USA

Mark Hew, Australia

Adam Hill, UK

Uwe Himmelreich, Belgium

Andrij Holian, USA

Robert J. Homer, USA

Sakae Homma, Japan

Howard D. Hosgood, USA

Mohammad Hossein Boskabady, Iran

Seth Housman, USA

Camilla Hoyos, Australia

Yong Huang, USA

Victor Huber, USA

Mark Huberman, USA

Sophie Huddart, Canada

Imran Iftikhar, USA

Deniz Inal-Ince, Turkey

Malin Inghammar, Sweden

Rm Jackson, USA

Michael A. Jantz, USA

Vinicio De Jesus Perez, USA

Ajay Kumar Jha, India

Akhilesh Jha, UK

Zhiqiang Jiang, USA

Helen Jo, Australia

Andrew M. Jones, UK

Timothy Joseph Mcmahon, USA

Stéphane Jouneau, France

Barbara Kahl, Germany

Stefan Karrasch, Germany

Daniel Kass, USA

Stamatis Katsenos, Greece

Hiroyuki Kayaba, Japan

Nicholas Kenyon, USA

Ruth Keogh, UK

Kenneth Kesler, USA

Andras Keszei, USA

Rashid Khan, Pakistan

Jiyoun Kim, USA

Victor Kim, USA

Gregory Kinney, USA

Vladimír Koblížek, Czech Republic

Janwillem Wh Kocks, Netherlands

Eva Kocova, Czech Republic

Andreas Rembert Koczulla, Germany

David Köhler, Germany

Sulev Koks, Estonia

Saeed Kolahian, Germany

Ivan Kopitovic, Serbia

Michael Koval, USA

Bryan Kraft, USA

Rafal Krenke, Poland

Stefanie Krick, USA

Christopher Kuaban, Cameroon

Rakesh Kumar, Australia

Vijayanarayana Kunhikatta, India

Kenya Kusunose, Japan

John L. Johnson, USA

Peter Lackie, UK

Franco Laghi, USA

Juan Torres Lanzas, USA

Joshua Lawson, Canada

Chiara Lazzeri, Italy

John Lednicky, USA

Annemarie Lee, Australia

Ken Lee, Singapore

Todd A Lee, USA

Colm Leonard, UK

Janice Leung, Canada

Stewart Levine, USA

Huiping Li, China

Miaozhu Li, USA

Nanfang Li, China

C. Liebetrau, Germany

Zheyi Liew, UK

Claudio Liguori, Italy

Albert Yick Hou Lim, Singapore

Mario Lima, Italy

Kathleen Lindell, USA

Gianluca Lista, Italy

Yanhong Liu, USA

Yao-Zhong Liu, USA

Giuseppe Lo Russo, Italy

Jason Lobo, USA

Michael Loebinger, UK

Antonella Lomauro, Italy

Marianne Lønnebotn, Norway

Gauthier Loron, France

Teck Boon Low, Singapore

Adrian Lowe, Australia

Bart Luijk, Netherlands

Chung-Tat Lun, Hong Kong

Gerald Maarman, South Africa

Tania Maes, Belgium

Xiao-Mei Mai, Norway

Spyridon Makris, UK

Patrick Mallia, UK

Christopher Mallow, USA

Steven Maltby, Australia

Sorin Claudiu Man, Romania

Jess Mandel, USA

David Mannino, USA

Marco Mantero, Italy

Charles C. Marboe, USA

Santino Marchese, Italy

Stefan Marciniak, UK

Michael Marcus, UK

Michael Marcus, UK

Mar Marín, Spain

Malerba Mario, Italy

David Marsolais, Canada

Miguel Martinez-Garcia, Spain

Diego Maselli, USA

Giuseppe Mastrangelo, Italy

Joerg Mattes, Australia

Juan Mayordomo-Colunga, Spain

Brian Mccullagh, Ireland

Merry-Lynn Mcdonald, USA

Aisling Mcgowan, Ireland

Aisling Mcgowan, Ireland

Hiren Mehta, USA

Andrea Melani, Italy

Hasse Melbye, Norway

Erik Melen, Sweden

Craig Mellis, Australia

Andrew Menzies-Gow, UK

Keith Meyer, USA

Fabrizio Mezzasalma, Italy

Massimo Milione, Italy

Richael Mills, Ghana

Massimo Miniati, Italy

Mehdi Mirsaeidi, USA

Benoit Misset, France

Howard Mitchell, Australia

Yasunari Miyazaki, Japan

Farzad Moazed, USA

Daniela Sevecova- Mokra, Slovakia

Philip Molyneaux, UK

Michele Mondoni, Italy

Eduard Monsó, Spain

António Morais, Portugal

Teresa Morán, Spain

Amelia Moreira, Switzerland

Pieranselmo Mori, Italy

Konosuke Morimoto, Japan

Kozo Morimoto, Japan

Guillaume Mortamet, France

Eric Mortensen, USA

Richard Moss, USA

Teng Moua, USA

Subhendu Mukherjee, Canada

Tobias Müller, Germany

Nicola Murgia, Italy

Patrick Murphy, UK

Michelle Murray, Canada

Lucia Anna Muscarella, USA

David Naidich, USA

Yutaro Nakamura, Japan

Jacek Nasiłowski, Poland

Evangelia Nena, Greece

Nuno Neuparth, Portugal

Cliona Ní Cheallaigh, Ireland

Antonello Nicolini, Italy

Masaji Nishimura, Japan

Mika Nonoyama, Canada

Peadar Noone, USA

Seyed Nouraie, USA

Maen Obeidat, Canada

Emmett O'Brien, USA

Onyema Ogbuagu, USA

Shinya Ohkouchi, Japan

Steffen Ohlmeier, Finland

Shinichiro Ohshimo, Japan

Nigar Gulfer Okumus, Turkey

Justin Oldham, USA

Brian Oliver, Australia

Hisamitsu Omori, Japan

Wanda O'Neal, USA

Stephen Oo, Australia

Keith Ooi, Australia

Josuel Ora, Italy

Pablo Orellano, Argentina

Victor Ortega, USA

Gyula Ostoros, Hungary

Takemi Otsuki, Japan

Caroline Owen, USA

Tanmay Panchabhai, USA

Andriana I. Papaioannou, Greece

Spyros Papiris, Greece

Magdelena Paplinska-Gorya, Poland

Elisabeth Paramythiotou, Greece

Margaret Parker, USA

Tom Parks, UK

Mark Parshall, USA

Ida Parwati, Indonesia

Laura Paulin, USA

Roxane Paulin, Canada

Rita Pavasini, Italy

Paulo Pêgo- Fernandes, Brazil

Jean Yannis Perentes, USA

Jennifer Perret, Australia

Ghee Chee Phua, Singapore

Tobias Piegeler, Germany

Ruben Lamas Pinheiro, Portugal

Pietro Pirina, Italy

Lara Pisani, Italy

Enrico Piva, Italy

Davor Plavec, Croatia

Roy Pleasants, USA

Francesca Polverino, USA

Emanuele Pontali, Italy

Janos Porszasz, USA

Laura Portas, Italy

Patricia Price, Australia

David Prior, Australia

Jonathan Puchalski, USA

Luis Puente-Maestu, Spain

Wonder Puryear Drake, USA

Nirupama Putcha, USA

Alexandra Quittner, USA

Bradley Quon, Canada

Remi Rabasa-Lhoret, Canada

Balazs Rada, USA

Jessica Rademacher, Germany

Dejan Radovanovic, Italy

Najib Rahman, UK

Saydur Rahman, USA

Amresh Raina, USA

Chuck Reddy, USA

Kate Regan, UK

John P Reilly, USA

Teresa Renda, Italy

Luis Adrian Rendon Perez, Mexico

Matteo Renzi, Italy

Daniel Reuter, Germany

Jorg Reutershan, Germany

Felipe Reyes, USA

Bradley Richmond, USA

Kristin Riekert, USA

Ilaria Righi, Italy

Amariliz Rivera, USA

Antoine Roch, France

Frédéric Roche, France

Erica Roesch, USA

Jean Roeseler, Belgium

Victor Roggli, USA

Santiago Ropero, Spain

Rafael Rosell, Spain

Sharon Rosenberg, USA

Giulio Rossi, Italy

Harry Rossiter, UK

Stephen Ruoss, USA

Paula Rytilä, Finland

Khaled  Saad, Egypt

Mohsen Sadatsafavi, Canada

Gemma Saint, UK

Fumikazu Sakai, Japan

Phuwanat Sakornsakolpat, USA

Konstantinos Samitas, Greece

Derrick Samuelson, USA

David San Segundo, Spain

Manuel Sanchez-Solis, Spain

Nathan Sandbo, USA

Pierachille Santus, Italy

Kimio Satoh, Japan

Shigeki Sawada, Japan

Ian Sayers, UK

Richard Schulz, Germany

Richard Schwartzstein, USA

Bell Scott Cameron, Australia

David Seamark, UK

Michael Seear, Canada

Michael A. Seidman, Canada

A Selva-O'Callaghan, Spain

Roy Semaan, USA

Francesco Sferrazza, Italy

Ashok Shah, India

Dominic Shaw, UK

Huahao Shen, China

Yoko Shibata, Japan

Yuichiro Shindo, Japan

Vadim Shlyonsky, Belgium

Ilias Siempos, USA

Denise Silva, Brazil

Mario Silva, Italy

John Simpson, UK

Aran Singanayagam, UK

Dave Singh, UK

Sarman Singh, India

Shivani Singh, USA

Dirk Skowasch, Germany

Peter Sly, Australia

Ivo J M Smeele, Netherlands

Lewis Smith, USA

Ivan Solovic, Slovakia

David Sonetti, USA

Dheeraj Soni, USA

Claudio Sorino, Italy

Pierre-Jean Souquet, France

Rogerio Souza, Brazil

Ferhan Soyuer, USA

Savino Spadaro, Italy

Paolo Spagnolo, Italy

Chandrashekhar Sreeramareddy, Malaysia

Willy Ssengooba, Uganda

Claudia Staab-Weijnitz, Germany

Marie Standl, Germany

Liz Steed, UK

Katrina Steiling, USA

Dorthe Stensvold, Norway

Martina Sterclova, Czech Republic

Roberto Stirbulov, Brazil

James Stockley, UK

Jan Stolk, Netherlands

Me Strek, USA

Haruhiko Sugimura, Japan

Varsha Suresh Kumar, USA

Yuzo Suzuki, Japan

Andrew Swift, UK

Jeffrey Swigris, USA

Emily Swindle, UK

Marc Sze, USA

Akos Szlavecz, Hungary

Elisa Tagliani, Italy

Camille Taille, France

Takahiro Takazono, Japan

Lilla Tamási, Hungary

Susan M. Tarlo, Canada

Jennifer L. Taylor-Cousar, USA

Silvia Terraneo, Italy

Matthew Thomas, UK

B Thyagarajan, USA

Nick Tiller, UK

F Tokgoz Akyıl, Turkey

James Tolle, USA

Les Tolle, USA

Rade Tomic, USA

Bonfield Tracey, USA

J.  Turner, Jr., USA

Homer Twigg Iii, USA

Michelle Tye, Australia

Sevinç Sarinç Ulasli, Turkey

John Upham, Australia

E Usuf, Gambia

Pradeep Vaideeswar, India

Adele Valentini, Italy

Claudia Valenzuela, Spain

Coline Van Moorsel, Netherlands

Carlo Vancheri, Italy

Nitin Vanjare, India

Michael Vannier, USA

Martina Vasakova, Czech Republic

Maroula Vasilopoulou, Greece

A Vatrella, Italy

Jl Vazquez Martinez, Spain

Andrea Vianello, Italy

Michele Vitacca, Italy

Stylianos Vittorakis, Greece

Dennis W.T. Nilsen, Norway

Julia K.L. Walker, USA

Emily Wan, USA

Chun-Hua Wang, Taiwan

Dong-Mei Wang, USA

Zixing Wang, China

Shan Ward, USA

Peter Wark, Australia

Kentaro Watanabe, Japan

Henrik Watz, Germany

Fernando César Wehrmeister, Brazil

David Welsh, UK

Fuqiang Wen, China

Andrew Williams, UK

Mark Williams, UK

Lori D. Wilson, USA

Craig Winstanley, UK

Keith Wong, Australia

Stephen Wort, UK

Wim Wuyts, Belgium

Duncan Wyncoll, UK

Antoni Xaubet, Spain

Qingyang Xiao, USA

Wei-Ning Xiong, China

Ian Yang, Australia

Nadir Yehya, USA

Anthony Yii Chau Ang, Singapore

Özge Yilmaz, Turkey

Arzu Yorgancioglu, Turkey

Guoying Yu, USA

Lorenzo Zammarchi, Italy

Hassan Zaraket, Lebanon

Paul Zarogoulidis, Greece

Gucheng Zeng, China

Brad Zhang, Australia

Jiao Zhang, USA

Yingze Zhang, USA

Lan Zhao, UK

Matt Zinter, USA

Graeme Zosky, Australia


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