BMC Ophthalmology reviewer acknowledgement 2015

Contributing reviewers

The editors of BMC Ophthalmology would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 15 (2015).

Mohammed Abdull

Nigeria

Massimo Accorinti

Italy

James Acheson

UK

Bola Adekoya

Nigeria

Srijana Adhikari

Nepal

Rupesh Agrawal

Singapore

Zubair M. Ahmed

USA

Mehmet Orcun Akdemir

Turkey

Sibel Aksoy

Turkey

Luciana Alencar

Brazil

Mohammad Ali

India

Jorge Alio

Spain

Micol Alkabes

Italy

Ryham Allam

Egypt

Benjamin Althouse

USA

Winfried Amoaku

UK

Afsaneh Amouzegar

USA

Kumarasamy Anbarasu

India

Marcus Ang

Singapore

Rajendra Apte

USA

James Aquavella

USA

Maria Cecilia Aquino

USA

Ilir Arapi

Italy

Yonca Arat

Turkey

Samuel Arba-Mosquera

Spain

Luis Arias

Spain

Murali Ariga

India

Mary Beth Aronow

USA

Hemamalini Arvind

Australia

Penny Asbell

USA

George Asimellis

USA

Ioannis Aslanides

Greece

Rashima Asokan

India

Marcel Avila

Colombia

Ahmed Awadein

Egypt

Marcelo Ayala

Sweden

Kalpana Babu Murthy

India

Simon Backhouse

Australia

Jeong Hun Bae

South Korea

Haiqing Bai

China

Konstantinos Balaskas

UK

Brendan Barrett

UK

Robert Barry

UK

Daniel Barthelmes

Switzerland

Keith Barton

UK

Ken Bassett

Canada

Roberto Bellucci

Italy

Pooja Bhat

USA

Muna Bhende

India

Marc Biarnés

Spain

Catherine Birt

USA

Jenefer Blackwell

Australia

Maria Antonietta Blasi

Italy

ostas Boboridis

Greece

Kathryn Bollinger

USA

Vincenza Bonfiglio

Italy

Nacim Bouheraoua

France

Banu Bozkurt

Turkey

John Bradbury

UK

Christopher Brand

UK

Milam Brantley

USA

Fion Bremner

UK

Dominique Bremond-Gignac

France

Scott Brodie

USA

Paolo Brusini

Italy

Vatinee Bunya

USA

Kathryn Burdon

Australia

Suk Ho Byeon

South Korea

Florence Cabot

USA

Delia Cabrera Debuc

USA

Pilar Cacho-Martínez

Spain

Halil Çagatay

Turkey

Pilar Calvo

Spain

Charles Campbell

USA

Gonzalo Carracedo

Spain

Ester Carreño

UK

Pilar Casas-Llera

Spain

Laure Caspers

Belgium

Heidi Cate

UK

Lingping Cen

China

Subhabrata Chakrabarti

India

Patricia Chalela

USA

Spyridon Chalkiadakis

UK

Jagdish Chander

India

Jessica Chang

USA

Shu-Hong Chang

USA

Neil Charman

UK

William Charman

UK

Sunil Chauhan

USA

Celia Chen

Australia

Chian-Feng Chen

Taiwan

Haoyu Chen

China

Hsin-Yi Chen

Taiwan

Philip Chen

USA

Connie Chen

USA

Andy Cheng

Hong Kong

Wah Cheuk

Hong Kong

Carol Cheung

Singapore

Shravan Chintala

USA

Lidia Chomicz

Poland

Kam-Lung Kelvin Chong

Hong Kong

Nikhil Choudhari

India

Bonnie Nga Kwan Choy

Hong Kong

cqueline Chua

Singapore

Jin Kwon Chung

South Korea

Tae-Young Chung

South Korea

Gerry Clare

UK

Rosa M. Coco

Spain

Cris Constantinescu

UK

Maria Cordeiro

UK

Luis Cordoves

Spain

Terry Coursey

USA

Margaux Crabtree

USA

Jennifer Craig

New Zealand

Ian Cree

UK

J. Oscar Croxatto

Argentina

Yan Cui

China

Arthur Cummings

Ireland

Tanuj Dada

India

Erika Damato

UK

Vivek Dave

India

Helen Davis

UK

Janet Davis

USA

Roberto Dell'Omo

Italy

Hakan Demirci

USA

Alastair Denniston

UK

Maria Dettoraki

Greece

Christoph Deuter

Germany

Federico Di Matteo

Italy

Vasilios Diakonis

USA

Xiaoyan Ding

China

Ali Djalilian

USA

Rosa Dolz-Marco

Spain

Rodrigo Donoso

Chile

Stella Douma

Greece

Laura Downie

Australia

Alina Dumitrescu

USA

Yusuf Durlu

Turkey

Matthew Edmunds

UK

Rita Ehrlich

Israel

Amal Elbendary

Egypt

Mostafa Elgohary

UK

Hala Elhilali

Egypt

Charles Elmaraghy

USA

Gehad Elnahri

Egypt

Rasha Eltanamly

Egypt

Gabriela Espinoza

USA

Boniface Ikenna Eze

Nigeria

Mads Krüger Falk

Denmark

Sepehr Feizi

Iran

Maryam Ferdousi

UK

Karen D. Fern

USA

Merle Fernandes

India

Roberto Fernandez Buenaga

Spain

Giulio Ferrari

Italy

Tiago Ferreira

Portugal

Alistair Fielder

UK

Michele Figus

Italy

Robert Finger

Australia

John Flatter

USA

Ignacio Flores-Moreno

Spain

Paolo Fogagnolo

Italy

Alex Fonollosa

Spain

Alejandro Fonollosa Calduch

Spain

Clare Fraser

USA

Valeria Fu

USA

Emre Güler

Turkey

Subhash Gaddipati

USA

Roberto Gallego-Pinazo

Spain

Juan Eduardo Gallo

Argentina

Nicola Gan

Singapore

Alfredo Garcia-Layana

Spain

Yonathan Garfias

Mexico

Sumit Garg

USA

David Gaucher

France

Bruce Gaynes

USA

Yubin Ge

USA

Ronnie George

India

Elham Ghahari

USA

Asaad Ghanem

Egypt

Khalil Ghasemi Falavarjani

Iran

Stephen Gichuhi

UK

Ilene Gipson

USA

Fleur Goezinne

Netherlands

E-Shawn Goh

Singapore

Kong Yong Goh

Singapore

Francisco Javier Goñi

Spain

Johannes Gonnermann

Germany

Michael Grentzelos

Greece

Ahmet Kaan Gunduz

Turkey

Huanqing Guo

Ireland

Noopur Gupta

India

Sang Beom Han

South Korea

Fiona Harris

UK

Jiucheng He

USA

Mark Heaney

USA

Anders Heijl

Sweden

Francisco Hernandez-Torres

Spain

Nicole Heussen

Germany

Taichi Hikichi

Japan

David Hinkle

USA

Nino Hirnschall

Austria

Kazuyuki Hirooka

Japan

Jesper Hjortdal

Denmark

Stephan Hoffmann

Germany

Vladimir Holan

Czech Republic

Gabor Hollo

Hungary

Shigeru Honda

Japan

Shinataro Horie

Japan

Anna Horwood

UK

Akihiko Hoshi

Japan

Mohsen Hosseini

Canada

Yu-Chih Hou

Taiwan

Yi-Hsun Huang

Taiwan

Ruth Huna-Baron

Israel

Toby Hurd

UK

Michele Iester

Italy

Makoto Inoue

Japan

Makoto Ishikawa

Japan

J. Iyer

Singapore

Gregory Jackson

USA

Robert Jacobs

New Zealand

Mohammadreza Jafarinasab

Iran

Ebrahim Jafarzadehpur

Iran

Marilyn James

UK

Sun Young Jang

South Korea

Vishal Jhanji

Hong Kong

Zhengxuan Jiang

China

Amit Jinabhai

UK

Jasleen Jolly

UK

Denis Jusufbegovic

USA

Andreas K. Lauer

USA

Namir Kafil-Hussain

UK

Alon Kahana

USA

Rim Kahloun

Tunisia

Swathi Kaliki

India

Yogita Kanan

USA

Hyong Kwon Kang

Australia

Hae Min Kang

South Korea

Chitra Kannabiran

India

Costas H. Karabatsas

Greece

Dimitrios Kardaras

Greece

Marzieh Katibeh

Iran

Andreas Katsanos

Greece

S Kavitha

India

Takahiro Kawaji

Japan

Oonuma Kazuhiko

Japan

Vladimir Kefalov

USA

Hamid Khakshoor

Iran

Mayuri Khamar

India

Jane Khan

Australia

Hemant Khanna

USA

Rohit Khanna

India

Nora Khatib

USA

Ahmad Kheirkhah

USA

Kyeong Hwan Kim

South Korea

Chan Yun Kim

South Korea

Tae Wan Kim

South Korea

Kenichi Kimoto

Japan

Ashwini Kini

India

Aman Kirmani

UK

Tomas Knapen

Netherlands

Konrad Koch

Germany

Triantafyllia Koletsa

Greece

Nataliya Kolosova

Russia

Georgios Kontadakis

Greece

Karanjit Kooner

USA

Dara Koozekanani

USA

Larry Koreen

USA

Rhonda G. Kost

USA

Mihir Kothari

India

Prabhakar Krishnacharya

India

David Krizaj

USA

KazuyUKi Kumagai

Japan

Vinod Kumar

India

Periyasamy Kumar

UK

Ajay Kumar

USA

James Kundart

USA

Shoji Kuriyama

Japan

Chiara La Morgia

Italy

Neil Lagali

Sweden

Jimmy Lai

Hong Kong

Timothy Lai

Hong Kong

Cedric Lamirel

France

Jonathan Lass

USA

Alex Lau

Singapore

Augustinus Laude

Singapore

Chang Kyu Lee

South Korea

Helena Lee

UK

Salomé Leibundgut

Switzerland

Gary Joseph Lelli

USA

Gary Lelli, Jr.

USA

Michael Lemp

USA

Kim Son Lett

UK

Richard Alan Lewis

USA

Monique Leys

USA

Qingfeng Liang

China

Xiaofeng Lin

China

Gopal Lingam

Singapore

Petra Liskova

Czech Republic

Julie-Anne Little

UK

Yongji Liu

China

Bingqian Liu

China

Wenzhong Liu

USA

Norberto Lopez-Gil

Spain

Yi Lu

China

Kenneth Lu

USA

Fiona Luk

Hong Kong

Jose Domingo Luna

Argentina

Li Ma

Hong Kong

Michele Madigan

USA

Dimitra Makrynioti

Greece

Alex Mammen

USA

Raffaele Mancino

Italy

Baskaran Mani

Singapore

Gianluca Manni

Italy

Ahmad Mansour

Lebanon

Kaweh Mansouri

Switzerland

Sanjay Marasini

New Zealand

Robert Marie-Claude

Canada

Inês Marques

Portugal

Marvin Marti

Switzerland

Enrico Martini

Italy

Vicente Martin-Montañez

Spain

Sundari Mase

USA

Ioannis Mavrikakis

UK

Julie Mcclelland

UK

Timothy Mcculley

USA

Paul Mcdaniel

USA

Rebecca Mcgreal

USA

Martin Mckibbin

UK

Rebecca Mclean

UK

Hemal Mehta

USA

Balraj Menon

USA

Farhan Merali

USA

Shannath Merbs

USA

Catherine Meyerle

USA

Manuele Michelessi

Italy

Atsuya Miki

Japan

Giovanni Milano

Italy

Dan Milea

France

Baruch Minke

Israel

Vikas Mittal

India

Garima Mittal

India

Sandra Mmontezuma

USA

Rahul Modak

India

Shaheeda Mohamed

Hong Kong

Aditi Mohla

UK

Gregory Moloney

Australia

Lieve Moons

Belgium

Bruce Moore

USA

Eduardo Moragrega

Mexico

Jiten Morarji

UK

Javier Moreno-Montañes

Spain

Nigel Morlet

Australia

Jim Morton

New Zealand

Majid Moshirfar

USA

Majid Moshirfar

USA

Lisha Mou

China

Guoying Mu

Chile

Kaustubh Mulay

India

Kosta Mumcuoglu

Israel

DaisUKe Muramatsu

Japan

Hiroshi Murata

Japan

Ian Murdoch

UK

Hemanth Murthy

India

K. Naeser

Denmark

Mayuresh Naik

India

Akira Nakai

Japan

Masatsugu Nakamura

Japan

HiroyUKi Namba

Japan

Mayank Nanavaty

UK

Raja Narayanan

India

Masood Naseripour

Iran

Neema Nayeb-Hashemi

USA

Paula Anne Newman-Casey

USA

Angeline Nguyen

USA

Simona Delia Nicoara

Romania

Juan Carlos Nieto

Spain

Kanwal Nischal

USA

Jason Noble

Canada

Benjamín Nogueda-Torres

Mexico

Monisha Esther Nongpiur

Singapore

Jean Jacques Noubiap

Cameroon

Katarzyna Nowomiejska

Poland

Carlo Nucci

Italy

William Nunery

USA

Jacqueline Nuysink

Netherlands

Anna O'Connor

UK

Veronica O'Dwyer

Ireland

Joo Youn Oh

South Korea

Toshihiko Ohta

Japan

Akio Oishi

Japan

Andre Okanobo

Brazil

Ólöf Olafsdottir

Iceland

J. Nwando Olayiwola

USA

UchechUKwu Osuagwu

Australia

Yoko Ozawa

Japan

Engin Bilge Ozgurhan

Turkey

Mark Packer

USA

Howard Palte

USA

Chen-Wei Pan

China

Eleni Papageorgiou

UK

George Papaliodis

USA

Chan Kee Park

South Korea

Choul Yong Park

South Korea

Sung Who Park

South Korea

Katrina Parker

USA

Salvador Pastor-Idoate

Spain

Sangita Patel

USA

Vanita Pathak Ray

India

Ushasree Pattamatta

Australia

Jayter Paula

Brazil

Michael Pavlica

USA

Gary Peh

Singapore

Enrico Peiretti

Italy

Gökhan Pekel

Turkey

Prakash Peralam Yegneswaran

India

Pablo Pérez-Merino

Spain

Henry Perry

USA

Simon Petersen-Jones

USA

John Phillips

New Zealand

Francesco Pichi

Italy

Jose Pinto

Argentina

Dilara Pirhan

Turkey

Amir Pirouzian

USA

Brigitte Pittet-Cuenod

Switzerland

Ana Belen Plaza

Spain

Eugenie Poh

Singapore

Lalitha Prajna

India

Gaurav Prakash

United Arab Emirates

Frank Proudlock

UK

Claudio Punzo

USA

Dania Qatarneh

Australia

Hong Qi

China

Kunliang Qiu

China

Mary Qiu

USA

Luciano Quaranta

Italy

Francesco Quaranta Leoni

Italy

Mansur Rabiu

Nigeria

Mohammad Taher Rajabi

Iran

Rajesh Rajagopalan

Singapore

Raju Rajala

USA

Vasant Raman

UK

Aparna Ramasubramanian

USA

Pradeep Ramulu

USA

Padmaja Kumari Rani

India

Aparna Rao

India

Dejan M. Rašić

Serbia

Rinki Ratnapriya

USA

Kimberly Reed

USA

Cornelius Rene

UK

Lixing Reneker

USA

Joanna Reszeć

Poland

Amanda Rey

Spain

Flavio Rezende

Canada

Seungsoo Rho

South Korea

Andri Riau

Singapore

Lucas Ricci

Brazil

Ivano Riva

Italy

Syed Rizvi

India

Gloria Roberti

Italy

Daniel Roberts

USA

Shisong Rong

Hong Kong

Maged Roshdy

Egypt

Luca Rossetti

Italy

Avik Roy

India

Sanhita Roy

India

Sayon Roy

USA

Jos Rozema

Belgium

Eliana Rulli

Italy

Kai Saariniemi

Finland

li Osman Saatci

Turkey

Sergio Saccà

Italy

Mahipal Sachdev

India

Mohammad Sadiq

USA

Manuel Saenz-De-Viteri

Spain

Masaaki Saito

Japan

Pavandeep Singh Sandhu

UK

Srinivasan Sanjay

Singapore

Muthupandian Saravanan

Ethiopia

Giacomo Savini

Italy

Ariel Schlaen

Spain

Leopold Schmetterer

Austria

Katrina Schmid

Australia

Heather Schmitt

USA

Lynn Schoenfield

USA

Stephen Schwartz

USA

Edina Schweighoffer

UK

Leonard Seibold

USA

Sirisha Senthil

India

Yasir Sepah

USA

Robert Sergott

USA

Ameet Shah

UK

Syed Shah

USA

Zaid Shalchi

UK

Siddesh Shambhu

UK

Robert Shanks

USA

S. Shantha

India

Emily Shao

UK

Heather Sheardown

Canada

Sethu Sheeladevi

India

Raneen Shehadeh Mashor

Israel

Yin Shen

China

Haihong Shi

China

Tomoaki Shiba

Japan

Rebecca Shields

USA

Rabia Shihada

Israel

Katsunori Shimada

Japan

Ari Shinojima

Japan

Jyoti Shrestha

Nepal

Ho Cheung (Anderson ) Shum

Hong Kong

Damian Siedlecki

Poland

Eric Sigler

USA

Ronald H. Silverman

USA

Huseyin Simavli

Turkey

Matthew Simunovic

UK

Michael Singer

USA

Eric Singman

USA

Sobha Sivaprasad

UK

Simon Skalicky

UK

Dimitra Skondra

USA

Wendy M Smith

USA

John Somner

UK

Kaz Soong

USA

Luigina Sorbara

Canada

Leopoldo Spadea

Italy

Oriel Spierer

Israel

Alex Spratt

USA

Sandra Spurr-Michaud

USA

Magi Sque

UK

Prema Sriram

Australia

Erin Stahl

USA

Miles Stanford

UK

David Steel

UK

John Stephenson

UK

Jay Stewart

USA

Gregory Stoddard

USA

Rupert Wolfgang Strauss

USA

Veit Sturm

Switzerland

Kaiming Su

China

Guanfang Su

China

Lakshman Subbaraman

Canada

Aditya Sudhalkar

India

Alan Sugar

USA

Michelle Sun

Australia

Young Sun

USA

Shivalingappa Swamynathan

USA

Mark Swanson

USA

Celine Sys

UK

Christopher Ta

USA

Audrey Talley Rostov

USA

Petrina Tan

Singapore

NaoyUKi Tanimoto

Germany

Angelo P. Tanna

USA

Jeremiah Tao

USA

Andrew Taylor

USA

Alejandro Tello

Colombia

Stephen Teoh

Singapore

Miguel Teus

Spain

Margarita Todorova

Switzerland

Mustafa Toker

Turkey

Ebru Toker

Turkey

Javier Tomás-Juan

Spain

Antonio Toso

Italy

Yuksel Totan

Turkey

Sharon Tow

Singapore

Chieh-Chih Tsai

Taiwan

Yeou-Ping Tsao

Taiwan

Michael Tsatsos

UK

Kiran Turaka

USA

Fatih Turkcu

Turkey

Phillip Turnbull

New Zealand

Argyrios Tzamalis

Greece

Takashi Ueta

Japan

F. Ussa

USA

Alejandra Valenzuela

USA

Tom Van Den Berg

Netherlands

Suzanne Van Landingham

USA

Gregory Van Stavern

USA

Lourens Van Zyl

Australia

Jean Vaudaux

Switzerland

Demetrios Vavvas

USA

Ramesh Ve

India

Federico Velez

USA

Rengaraj Venkatesh

India

Lingam Vijaya

India

Edoardo Villani

Italy

Guadalupe Villarreal Jr.

USA

Catherine Viner

UK

Gianni Virgili

Italy

Michael Volkert

USA

Graham Wallace

UK

Yan Wang

China

I-Jong Wang

Taiwan

An-Guor Wang

Taiwan

Gaofeng Wang

USA

Mengmeng Wang

China

Zhongxiao Wang

USA

Yi Wei

USA

Derek Welsbie

USA

Adam Wenick

USA

Eric Wieben

USA

Helmut Wilhelm

Germany

Cathy Williams

UK

David Williams

UK

Pete Williams

USA

Kimberly Winges

USA

Meraf Wolle

USA

Ian Wong

Hong Kong

Elizabeth Wong

Singapore

Wolf Wonneberger

Sweden

Se Joon Woo

South Korea

Emily Woodman

Australia

Fasika Woreta

USA

Yuan Wu

China

Jason CheUK-Sing Yam

Hong Kong

SUK-Woo Yang

South Korea

Chung-May Yang

Taiwan

Yit Yang

UK

Hui Yang

China

Yufeng Yao

China

Ke Yao

China

Yu-Feng Yao

China

Yasemin Yavuz

Turkey

Volkan Yaylali

Turkey

Tun K Yeo

Singapore

Zheng Qin Yin

China

Efdal Yoeruek

Germany

David Yoo

USA

Kyung Chul Yoon

South Korea

Sam Young Yoon

South Korea

Kim Yoon-Duck

South Korea

Yosanan Yospaiboon

Thailand

Honghua Yu

China

Minbin Yu

China

Murat Yuksel

Turkey

Patrick Yu-Wai-Man

UK

Leandro Zacharias

Brazil

Masahiro Zako

Japan

Juan Carlos Zenteno

Mexico

Xiaojun Zhang

China

Xiongze Zhang

China

Yuhua Zhang

USA

Shaoru Zhang

China

Xiulan Zhang

China

Chengxin Zhou

USA

Shiyou Zhou

China

Meidong Zhu

Australia

Mohammed Ziaei

UK

Noel Ziebarth

USA

Haidong Zou

China