Annual acknowledgement of manuscript reviewers

Contributing reviewers

The editors of BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in Volume 12 (2012).

Jos Aarts

Netherlands

Wilco Achterberg

Netherlands

Bram Adams

Canada

Samantha Adams

Netherlands

Rocco Agostino

Italy

Amir Ahmad

India

John Ainsworth

United Kingdom

Grace Ajuwon

Nigeria

Aamir Jalal Al Mosawi

Iraq

Laurence Alpay

Netherlands

K. Rivet Amico

USA

Ashwin Ananthakrishnan

USA

Milena Anatchkova

USA

Lefteris Angelis

Greece

Carmel Apicella

Australia

Joan Ash

USA

Caroline Asiimwe

Uganda

Parisa Aslani

Australia

Koray Atalag

New Zealand

Alexander Avidan

Israel

Wassim Ayadi

Tunisia

Franz Babl

Australia

Heather Baer

USA

James Baggs

USA

James Bailey

USA

Ubirajara Barroso Jr.

Brazil

Diana Bartlett

USA

Melissa Baysari

Australia

Michael Becich

USA

Carol Bennett

Canada

Adrian Benton

USA

Ariel Beresniak

Switzerland

Francois Berthoux

France

Jinbo Bi

USA

Chunhua Bian

China

Carlo Bianca

Italy

Jesus Bisbal

Spain

Seiji Bito

Japan

Mitchel Blair

United Kingdom

Ingrid Böhm

Germany

Stefano Bonacina

Italy

Albert Boonstra

Netherlands

Renata Bortolus

Italy

Rj Bosman

Netherlands

Hayden Bosworth

USA

Matt-Mouley Bouamrane

United Kingdom

Andrew Bradley

Australia

Elizabeth Bradley

USA

John F P Bridges

USA

Matthew Bultitude

United Kingdom

Howard Burkom

USA

Aidan Byrne

United Kingdom

Alejandro Calderon

Spain

Carlos Cano Gutierrez

Spain

María Del Carmen Carnero

Spain

Joao Paulo Carvalho

Portugal

Kate Cavanagh

United Kingdom

Sandeep Chandana

USA

Rui Chang

USA

Prodromos Chatzoglou

Greece

Rosa Chaves

Spain

Austin Chen

Taiwan

Kewei Chen

USA

Yu-Chun Chen

Taiwan

Carol Chenoweth

USA

Zaida Chinchilla-Rodriguez

Spain

Jen-Hsiang Chuang

Taiwan

Edward Cokely

USA

Nananda Col

United Kingdom

Jamie Coleman

United Kingdom

Isabelle Colombet

France

Kirsten Colpaert

Belgium

Jose Conde

Puerto Rico

Craig Conover

USA

Andrew Cook

United Kingdom

Jeremy Cooperstock

Canada

Alasdair Corfield

United Kingdom

Carlos Costa

Portugal

Kathrin Cresswell

United Kingdom

Jesse Crosson

USA

Rebecca Crowley

USA

Ricardo Cruz-Correia

Portugal

Elizabeth Cummings

Australia

Helen Dakin

United Kingdom

Jiangbo Dang

USA

Stefan Darmoni

France

Andrew Davidson

Australia

Gabrielle Davie

New Zealand

Nicolette De Keizer

Netherlands

Fabrizio De Ponti

Italy

Anke De Veer

Netherlands

Guilherme Del Fiol

USA

Nico Dellaert

Netherlands

Brenda Den Oudsten

Netherlands

Marie-Dominique Devignes

France

Joseph Diaz

USA

Brian Dixon

USA

Radu Dobrescu

Romania

James Dolan

USA

Wen Dong

USA

Shyamala Doraisamy

Malaysia

Charalampos Doukas

Greece

Jenny Doust

Australia

Dawn Dowding

United Kingdom

Tony Dowell

New Zealand

Matthew D’Souza

Australia

Georg Duftschmid

Austria

Claudio Eccher

Italy

Stamatis Efstathiou

Greece

Joakim Ekberg

Sweden

Arthur Elstein

USA

William Encinosa

USA

Saeid Eslami

Netherlands

Themis Exarchos

Greece

Julio Facelli

USA

Christopher Farmer

United Kingdom

Karen Farris

USA

Bernard Fernando

United Kingdom

Oscar Ferrandez

USA

Antonino Fiannaca

Italy

Carol E Fletcher

USA

Eric Ford

USA

Hamish Fraser

USA

Clark Freifeld

USA

Christoph M. Friedrich

Germany

Marie-Pierre Gagnon

Canada

Robert Gagnon

Canada

Bill Galanter

USA

Miguel Garcia-Perez

Spain

Rocio Garcia-Retamero

Spain

Sebastian Garde

Germany

Amit Garg

Canada

Teresa Gavaruzzi

United Kingdom

Colin Geddes

United Kingdom

Andrew Georgiou

Australia

Karthik Ghosh

USA

Julie Glanville

United Kingdom

John Glaser

USA

Nancy Glass

USA

Julien Gobeill

France

Mireille Goetghebeur

Canada

Ira Goldstein

USA

Shaun Grannis

USA

Kathleen Gray

Australia

Jeffrey Green

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United Kingdom

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Netherlands

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Italy

Arif Gulten

Turkey

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Spain

Stuart Haines

USA

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Switzerland

W. Edward Hammond

USA

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USA

Priscilla Harries

United Kingdom

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Malaysia

Gillian Hayes

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Australia

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Denmark

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Germany

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USA

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USA

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Sweden

Carol Homko

USA

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USA

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Germany

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USA

Monica Horvath

USA

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Taiwan

Jiin-Chyr Hsu

Taiwan

Rebecca Hubbard

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USA

Samantha Hurst

USA

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United Kingdom

Jan Illing

United Kingdom

David Isern

Spain

William Jacot

France

Arsh Jain

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Monique Jaspers

Netherlands

Ian Jenkins

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Norway

Kay Jones

Australia

Ray Jones

United Kingdom

Kristin Kahle-Wrobleski

USA

Ananth Kalyanaraman

USA

Bridget Kane

Ireland

Hyun-Sik Kang

Korea, South

Kyuchang Kang

Korea, South

Murat Kantarcioglu

USA

Sarvnaz Karimi

Australia

Dimitris Karlis

Greece

Maria Katapodi

USA

Zalman Kaufman

Israel

G Kim

USA

Ann Marie Kimball

USA

Patricia Kipnis

USA

Ela Klecun

United Kingdom

Caprice Knapp

USA

Petra Knaup

Germany

Sabine Koch

Sweden

Andrzej Kochut

USA

Marita Koivunen

Finland

Yiannis Kompatsiaris

Greece

Ross Koppel

USA

Ivica Kopriva

Croatia

Blanka Koristkova

Czech Republic

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Jude Kornelsen

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Netherlands

Sotiris Kotsiantis

Greece

Vessela Krasteva

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Anand Krishnan

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Sharon Kuhlmann

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Alex Kuo

Canada

Mila Kwiatkowska

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Hong Kong

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Switzerland

Marek Laskowski

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Annie Lau

Australia

Francis Lau

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Kay Lawton

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USA

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Australia

Heinz Lemke

Germany

Carlos León De Mora

Spain

Jacques Lepercq

France

Stephen J Leslie

United Kingdom

Guangxi Li

USA

Jingshan Li

USA

Jiuyong Li

Australia

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Australia

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Portugal

Kevin Livingston

USA

William Long

USA

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Anália Lourenço

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Pietro Lovaglio

Italy

Adolfo Lozano-Tello

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Joanne Luciano

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Jon Lurie

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Marie Louise Luttik

Netherlands

Huifang Ma

China

Michael Maaser

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Thusitha Mabotuwana

New Zealand

Velio Macellari

Italy

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Abdulraheem Mahmoud

Nigeria

Bradley Malin

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Victor Maojo

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South Africa

Roger Marshall

New Zealand

Joel Martin

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Linda Gore Martin

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United Kingdom

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New Zealand

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Andrew Mooney

United Kingdom

Rutu Mulkar-Mehta

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Juha Mykkänen

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Radhakrishnan Nagarajan

USA

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Malaysia

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Marlies Noordzij

Netherlands

Beverley Norris

United Kingdom

Pirkko Nykänen

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Olumuyiwa Odusanya

Nigeria

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United Kingdom

Stephen O’Neill

United Kingdom

Isaac Opole

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United Kingdom

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Thailand

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Korea, South

Philip Payne

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Netherlands

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Australia

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United Kingdom

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Spain

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New Zealand

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Indonesia

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Armenia

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Romania

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