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Reviewer acknowledgements 2017

The Editors and staff of BMC Palliative Care 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 (2017).

Suryakanta Acharya, India

Mary Acri, USA

Miki Akiyama, Japan

Victoria Allgar, UK

Alberto Alonso Babarro, Spain

Bernd Alt-Epping, Germany

Despina Anagnostou, UK

Maria Arantzamendi, Spain

Anne Arber, UK

Rena Arshinoff, Canada

Joseph Arthur, USA

Susan Elizabeth Ashton, UK

Ahsan Azhar, USA

Brian Badgwell, USA

Dave Balachandran, USA

Lynn Bassett, UK

Claudia Bausewein, Germany

Kim Beernaert, Belgium

Margarita Bidegain, USA

Alison Blenkinsopp, UK

Anna Bone, UK

Sara Booth, UK

Maria Bouri, Greece

Sandra Bradley, Australia

Louise Bramley, UK

Gino Bravo, Canada

Maria Brenner, Ireland

Katherine Bristowe, UK

Abraham Brody, USA

Kieran Broome, Australia

Jayne Brown, UK

Arndt Buessing, Germany

Jacobus Burgers, Netherlands

Susan Cadell, Canada

Natalia Monteiro Calanzani, UK

Tavis Campbell, Canada

Cathy Campbell, USA

Bridget Candy, UK

Magnolia Cardona-Morrell, Australia

Thomas Carroll, USA

Gianluca Catania, Italy

Luigi Celio, Italy

Carlos Centeno, Spain

Kenneth Chambaere, Belgium

Raymond Chan, Australia

Helen Chan, Hong Kong

Hsiao-Ting Chang, Taiwan

Shao-Yi Cheng, China

Benjamin Cheng, Hong Kong

Jan Christian Frich, Norway

Michael Connolly, Ireland

Stephen Connor, UK

Michael Coors, Germany

Massimo Costantini, Italy

Gregory Crawford, Australia

Burkhard Dasch, Germany

Nathan Davies, UK

Maja De Brito, Portugal

Carlo Deangelis, Canada

Susan A. Desanto-Madeya, USA

Julia Downing, Uganda

Julia Downing, UK

Sadie Dunn, Australia

Christantie Effendy, Indonesia

Ronit Elk, USA

Lee Ellington, USA

Matthew S. Ellman, USA

Ahmed Elsayem, USA

Yvonne Engels, Netherlands

Steffen Eychmüller, Switzerland

Morag Farquhar, UK

Marco Ferrone, USA

Corrado Ficorella, Italy

Bernard Fikkers, Netherlands

Marilène Filbet, France

Anne Finucane, UK

Geraldine Foley, Ireland

Liz Forbat, Australia

Karen Forbes, UK

Joel E. Frader, USA

Anneke Leijntje Francke, Netherlands

Lorna Fraser, UK

Rosemary Ann Frey, New Zealand

André Fringer, Switzerland

Ho Gwo Fuang, Malaysia

Clare Gardiner, UK

Marie Jose Gijsberts, Netherlands

Joy V. Goldsmith, USA

Nathan Goldstein, USA

Pedro Gozalo, USA

Gunn Grande, UK

Marieke Groot, Netherlands

Peiman Haddad, Iran

Kristin Halvorsen, Norway

Lissi Hansen, USA

Laura Hawryluck, Canada

Kelly Henry, USA

Anthony Herbert, Australia

Pablo Hernández-Marrero, Portugal

Irean Higginson, UK

John Hilton, Canada

Jo Hockley, UK

Lorraine Holtslander, Canada

Jane Hopkinson, UK

Debra Howell, UK

Peter Hudson, Australia

Sean Hughes, UK

Nicholas Hughes, UK

Paulette Hunter, Canada

Ann Hutchinson, UK

Sumie Ikezaki, Japan

Najmeh Jafari, USA

R. Thomas Jagoe, Canada

Maximiliane Jansky, Germany

Birgit Jaspers, Germany

Sarah Jeong, Australia

Ana Johnson, Canada

Grace Johnston, Canada

Louise Jones, UK

Joshua Jones, USA

Saskia Juenger, Germany

George Kernohan, UK

Tieghan Killackey, Canada

Yoshiyuki Kizawa, Japan

Christopher Klinger, Canada

Caprice Knapp, USA

Jonathan Koffman, UK

Malcolm Koo, Taiwan

David N. Korones, USA

Grigorios Kotronoulas, UK

Craig Kuziemsky, Canada

Karen La Cour, Denmark

Barry Laird, UK

Philip Larkin, Ireland

Susan Latter, UK

Susan Lee, Australia

Mhoira Leng, Uganda

Joan Liaschenko, USA

Mark Limmer, UK

Olav Lindqvist, Sweden

Elizabeth Lobb, Australia

Kathryn Lord, UK

Martin Loucka, Czech Republic

Joe Low, UK

Tim Luckett, Australia

Dale Lupu, USA

Marie Lynch, Ireland

Mary Lynn McPherson, USA

Roderick MacLeod, Australia

Matthew Maddocks, UK

Roger Manktelow, UK

Lize Maree, South Africa

Sandra Martins Pereira, Portugal

Eva Katharina Masel, Austria

Nikki McCaffrey, Australia

Susan McClement, Canada

Kathleen McLoughlin, Ireland

Salimah H. Meghani, USA

Joannes Menten, USA

Mitsunori Miyashita, Japan

M.K. Shear, USA

Deidre Morgan, Australia

Lucas Morin, Sweden

Maryann Muckaden, India

Sigrid Nakrem, Norway

Eve Namisango, Uganda

Elizabeth Namukwaya, Uganda

Mette Neergaard, Denmark

Laron E. Nelson, USA

Antonio Noguera, Spain

Charles Normand, Ireland

Clare O'Callaghan, Australia

Moira O'Connor, Australia

Karin Oechsle, Germany

Peter O'Halloran, UK

Ai Oishi, UK

Kelly Olino, USA

Amparo Oliver, Spain

David Oliver, UK

Linda Oostendorp, UK

Liliana Orellana, Australia

Christoph Ostgathe, Germany

Judith A. Paice, USA

H. Roeline Pasman, Netherlands

Sheila Payne, UK

Alison Penny, UK

Kelly Penz, Canada

Pedro Emilio Perez Cruz, Chile

Jane Phillips, Australia

Edgar Pierluissi, USA

Jayne Price, UK

Martine Puts, Canada

Peter Pype, Belgium

Shelley Raffin, Canada

Natasja Raijmakers, Netherlands

Christina Ramsenthaler, USA

Kasper Raus, Belgium

Constanze Remi, Germany

Mary Roberts, Australia

Jackie Robinson, New Zealand

Margaret Ross, Australia

Lone Ross, Denmark

Bruce Rumbold, Australia

Tony Ryan, UK

Libby Sallnow, UK

Sabine Salloch, Germany

Olinda Santin, UK

Katie Saunders, UK

Richard Sawatzky, Canada

Sandra Schellinger, USA

Christian Schulz-Quach, UK

Ryuichi Sekine, Japan

Omar Shamieh, Jordan

Richard Siegert, New Zealand

Victoria Simms, UK

Jessica Simon, Canada

Charles B. Simone, USA

Katherine Sleeman, Australia

Ryan J. Spencer, USA

Stephanie Stiel, Germany

Brinkman Stoppelenburg, Netherlands

Mamak Tahmasebi, Iran

Mark Taubert, UK

Brian Taylor, UK

Donald Taylor, USA

Sarah A. Thompson, USA

Thora Thomsen, Denmark

Lisbeth Thoresen, Norway

Vivianne C.G. Tjan-Heijnen, Netherlands

Moriwaki Toshikazu, Japan

Chris Toye, Australia

David Trickey, UK

Sudhakar Tummala, USA

Kiran Turaga, USA

Robin Turner, New Zealand

Mary Vachon, Canada

Michael Vallis, Canada

Joep van de Geer, Netherlands

Bart van den Eynden, Belgium

Annicka van der Plas, Netherlands

Carin van der Rijt, Netherlands

Maxwell Vergo, USA

Mieke Vermandere, Belgium

Marcel Louis Viallard, France

Raymond Viola, Canada

Kris Vissers, Netherlands

Ladislav Volicer, USA

Kay de Vries, UK

Jonathan Waite, UK

Elizabeth Walker, UK

Karla Washington, USA

Eric Wasylenko, Canada

Tessa Watts, UK

Herbert Watzke, Austria

Martin Weber, Germany

Bee Wee, UK

Lori Weeks, Canada

Kate White, Australia

Anne Wilkinson, Australia

Donna Wilson, Canada

Rebecca Wilson, UK

Erica Witkamp, Netherlands

Ruth Wong, UK

Charlotte Wool, USA

Mathias Worni, Switzerland

Sarah Xiao, Canada

Patsy Yates, Australia

Sriram Yennu, USA

Saran Yoshida, Japan

Jeanine Young, Australia

Sofia Zambrano Ramos, Switzerland

Camilla Zimmermann, Canada


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