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<strong>JOP</strong>. J <strong>Pancreas</strong> (Online) 2007; 9(6):761-764.<br />
GRATITUDE<br />
Thank you to our Reviewers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> year 2008<br />
It is remarkable and credits to our pr<strong>of</strong>ession that so many medical scientists and biologists<br />
are willing to critically review scientific papers. The Editorial Board recognizes <strong>the</strong> time,<br />
energy, and expertise this requires.<br />
Internet enabled scientific communication to become faster and easier also facilitating a rapid<br />
increase in <strong>the</strong> amount <strong>of</strong> not peer-reviewed medical and biologic in<strong>format</strong>ion available to all.<br />
As a consequence, we believe that <strong>the</strong> role <strong>of</strong> "<strong>JOP</strong>. <strong>Journal</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Pancreas</strong>", as a freestanding<br />
journal that guarantees <strong>the</strong> rapid dissemination <strong>of</strong> peer-reviewed scientific<br />
knowledge, is more important than ever.<br />
We depend on <strong>the</strong> individuals listed below for our ability to publish important readable and<br />
reliable papers in such a timely manner.<br />
Abu Hilal, Mohammad (Southampton, United<br />
Kingdom)<br />
Adamek, Henning E (Leverkusen, Germany)<br />
Adams, Amy L (Birmingham, AL, USA)<br />
Adams, David B (Charleston, SC, USA)<br />
Adham, Mustapha (Lyon, France)<br />
Agarwal, Rakesh (Lucknow, UP, India)<br />
Aithal, Guruprasad P (Nottingham, United Kingdom)<br />
Alam, Shahinul (Dhaka, Bangladesh)<br />
Alasio, Teresa M (Englewood, NJ, USA)<br />
Ali, Ridvan (Bursa, Turkey)<br />
Anders Møller, Andersen (Copenhagen, Denmark)<br />
Andersson, Roland (Lund, Sweden)<br />
Appetecchia, Marialuisa (Rome, Italy)<br />
Arantes, Vanessa Cristina (Cuiabá, MT, Brazil)<br />
Babu, Benoy I (Manchester, United Kingdom)<br />
Baek, Jin Ho (Ulsan, Korea)<br />
Baillie, John (Winston Salem, NC, USA)<br />
Balzano, Giampaolo (Milan, Italy)<br />
Becker, Thomas (Hannover, Germany)<br />
Behrman, Stephen W (Memphis, TN, USA)<br />
Bennett, Joseph J (Newark, DE, USA)<br />
Bentrem, David J (Chicago, IL, USA)<br />
Benzoni, Enrico (Udine, Italy)<br />
Bergmann, Frank (Heidelberg, Germany)<br />
Bhatia, Vikram (New Delhi, India)<br />
Bhonde, Ramesh R (Pune, Maharashtra, India)<br />
Blandamura, Stella (Padua, Italy)<br />
Boeck, Stefan (Munich, Germany)<br />
Boggi, Ugo (Pisa, Italy)<br />
Bollen, Thomas L (Nieuwegein, The Ne<strong>the</strong>rlands)<br />
Boros, Mihály (Szeged, Hungary)<br />
Boujaoude, Joseph (Beirut, Lebanon)<br />
Brown, Alphonso (Boston, MA, USA)<br />
Bunaes, Trond (Oslo, Norway)<br />
Burmester, Thorsten (Hamburg, Germany)<br />
Burt, Randall W (Salt Lake City, UT, USA)<br />
Butturini, Giovanni (Verona, Italy)<br />
Byrne, Michael F (Vancouver, British Columbia,<br />
Canada)<br />
Cannizzaro, Renato (Aviano, PN, Italy)<br />
Carbognin, Giovanni (Verona, Italy)<br />
Caron, Philippe (Toulouse, France)<br />
Casadei, Riccardo (Bologna, Italy)<br />
Cassim, Riaz (Morgantown, WV, USA)<br />
Castillo, Octavio A (Santiago, Chile)<br />
Cha, Charles (New Haven, CT, USA)<br />
Chacko, Ashok (Vellore, TN, India)<br />
Chatelain, Denis (Amiens, France)<br />
Chen, Jian (Zhejiang, China)<br />
Chen, Li (Zhejiang, China)<br />
Chen, Ru (Seattle, WA, USA)<br />
Cheng, Jianfeng (New Rochelle, NY, USA)<br />
Cherian, Jijo V (Chennai, India)<br />
Chetty, Runjan (Toronto, ON, Canada)<br />
Choh, Sunil A (Srinagar, India)<br />
Chong, Vui Heng (Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei<br />
Darussalam)<br />
Choyke, Peter (Be<strong>the</strong>sda, MD, USA)<br />
Christophi, Christopher (Melbourne, Victoria,<br />
Australia)<br />
Clancy, Thomas Edward (Boston, MA, USA)<br />
Clark, Jeffrey (Boston, MA, USA)<br />
Closa, Daniel (Barcelona, Spain)<br />
C<strong>of</strong>fey, J Calvin (Dublin, Ireland)<br />
Constantin, Jean Michel (Clermont-Ferrand, France)<br />
Conway, Jason D (Winston Salem, NC, USA)<br />
Cosen-Binker, Laura I (Toronto, ON, Canada)<br />
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Crane, Christopher (Houston, TX, USA)<br />
Crippa, Stefano (Monza, MI, Italy)<br />
Cruciani, Ricardo A (New York, NY, USA)<br />
Cupisti, Kenko (Düsseldorf, Germany)<br />
D’Angelica, Michael (New York, NY, USA)<br />
D'Amato, Elena (Genoa, Italy)<br />
Daperno, Marco (Turin, Italy)<br />
de Barros Reis, Marise A (Campinas, SP, Brazil)<br />
De Waele, Jan J (Gent, Belgium)<br />
Dedemadi, Georgia (A<strong>the</strong>ns, Greece)<br />
Demirpolat, Gulgun (Kahramanmaras, Turkey)<br />
Dervenis, Christos (A<strong>the</strong>ns, Greece)<br />
Deshpande, Vikram (Boston, MA, USA)<br />
Deutsch, John C (Duluth, MN, USA)<br />
Devlieger, Roland (Leuven, Belgium)<br />
Di Benedetto, Fabrizio (Modena, Italy)<br />
Dragovich, Tomislav (Tucson, AZ, USA)<br />
Dujardin, Martine (Brussel, Belgium)<br />
Enns, Robert (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)<br />
Esposito, Irene (Munich, Germany)<br />
Falconi, Massimo (Verona, Italy)<br />
Fan, Bo-Guang (Zhejiang, China)<br />
Farkas, Gyula (Szeged, Hungary)<br />
Farré, Antoni (Barcelona, Spain)<br />
Fathy, Omar M (Mansoura, Egypt)<br />
Felderbauer, Peter (Bochum, Germany)<br />
Filik, Levent (Ankara, Turkey)<br />
Fine, Robert L (New York, NY, USA)<br />
Friess, Helmut (Munich, Germany)<br />
Froudarakis, Marios E (Alexandroupolis, Greece)<br />
Frulloni, Luca (Verona, Italy)<br />
Furák, Jozsef (Szeged, Hungary)<br />
Gäbel, Gabor (Dresden, Germany)<br />
Gallagher, Scott (Tampa, FL, USA)<br />
Gallot, Denis (Clermont-Ferrand, France)<br />
Garcia Cantu, Dora Alicia (Monterrey, NL, México)<br />
Gardini, Andrea (Forlì, Italy)<br />
Gardner, Timothy B (Lebanon, NH, USA)<br />
Garza Galindo, Aldo A (Monterrey, NL, México)<br />
Gerke, Henning (Iowa City, IA, USA)<br />
Ghaskadbi, Saroj (Pune, Maharashtra, India)<br />
Goh, Brian KP (Singapore, Singapore)<br />
Gold, Jason S (West Roxbury, MA, USA)<br />
González-González, Josè Alberto (Monterrey, NL,<br />
México)<br />
Goodman, Anne Kathryn (Boston, MA, USA)<br />
Gouma, Dirk J (Amsterdam, The Ne<strong>the</strong>rlands)<br />
Graf, Rolf (Zürich, Switzerland)<br />
Grau, Ana M (Nashville, TN, USA)<br />
Gregory, James (Johnstown, PA, USA)<br />
Gribble, Fiona (Cambridge, United Kingdom)<br />
Groblewski, Guy E (Madison, WI, USA)<br />
Gumbs, Andrew A (New York, NY, USA)<br />
Gupta, Rajesh (Hyderabad, AP, India)<br />
Gupta, Sarita (Baroda, Gujrath, India)<br />
Hac, Stanislaw (Gdansk, Poland)<br />
Halfdanarson, Thorvardur R (Iowa City, IA, USA)<br />
Hardt, Philip D (Giessen, Germany)<br />
Hashimoto, Naoki (Osaka, Japan)<br />
Hay, Phillipa J (Sydney, Australia)<br />
Heinrich, Stefan (Zürich, Switzerland)<br />
Hellman, Pär (Uppsala, Sweden)<br />
Ihse, Ingemar (Lund, Sweden)<br />
Imaoka, Hiroshi (Nagoya, Japan)<br />
Irisawa, Atsushi (Fukushima, Japan)<br />
Ishigami, Kousei (Fukuoka, Japan)<br />
Ishikawa, Toru (Niigata, Japan)<br />
Itoi, Takao (Tokyo, Japan)<br />
Izbicki, Jakob R (Hamburg, Germany)<br />
Jaeck, Daniel (Strasbourg, France)<br />
Jain, Ajay K (Indore, India)<br />
Ji, Yuan (Shanghai, China)<br />
Johnson, Colin (Southampton, United Kingdom)<br />
Jukemura, Jose (São Paulo, SP, Brazil)<br />
Kahn, Delawir (Observatory, South Africa)<br />
Kakizaki, Satoru (Gunma, Japan)<br />
Kang, Chang Moo (Seoul, Korea)<br />
Karimi, Kamran M (Morgantown, WV, USA)<br />
Kaushik, Neeraj (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)<br />
Kent, Tara (Needham, MA, USA)<br />
Kern, Scott E (Baltimore, MD, USA)<br />
Khan, Aamir Z (London, United Kingdom)<br />
Khanna, Sudeep (New Delhi, India)<br />
Kim, Hong Jin (Chapel Hill, NC, USA)<br />
Kim, Hyoung Jung (Seoul, Korea)<br />
Kindmark, Henrik (Uppsala, Sweden)<br />
Kirschniak, Andreas (Tübingen, Germany)<br />
Kitano, Masayuki (Osaka, Japan)<br />
Kletter, Gad B (Seattle, WA, USA)<br />
Ko, Suong-Hyun (Seoul, Korea)<br />
Kobayashi, Tetsuro (Tamaho, Japan)<br />
Kozuch, Peter (New York, NY, USA)<br />
Krenitsky, Joe (Charlottesville, VA, USA)<br />
Krige, Jake EJ (Cape Town, South Africa)<br />
Kubota, Kensuke (Yokohama, Japan)<br />
Kyriakidis, Alexandros V (A<strong>the</strong>ns, Greece)<br />
Latorraca, Márcia Queiroz (Cuiabá, MT, Brazil)<br />
Laukkarinen, Johanna (Tampere, Finland)<br />
Layfield, Lester J (Salt Lake City, UT, USA)<br />
Lee, Sheng-Huang (Taipei, Taiwan)<br />
Leppaniemi, Ari (Helsinki, Finland)<br />
Libutti, Steven K (Be<strong>the</strong>sda, MD, USA)<br />
Lin, Being-Chuan (Tao-Yuan Hsien, Taiwan)<br />
Liu, Quanda (Chongqing, China)<br />
Lombardo, Lucio (Turin, Italy)<br />
Lugea, Aurelia (Los Angeles, CA, USA)<br />
Maalouf, Majed (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)<br />
Madura, James A (Indianapolis, IN, USA)<br />
Mahadeva, Sanjiv (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)<br />
Makola, Diklar (Charlottesville, VA, USA)<br />
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Makris, Demos<strong>the</strong>nes (Lille, France)<br />
Malhotra, Reenu K (Houston, TX, USA)<br />
Mall, Anwar Suleman (Observatory, South Africa)<br />
Maluf-Filho, Fauze (São Paulo, SP, Brazil)<br />
Mammen, Thomas (Vellore, TN, India)<br />
Mándi, Yvette (Szeged, Hungary)<br />
Marescaux, Jacques (Strasbourg, France)<br />
Mariani, Alberto (Milan, Italy)<br />
Marsh, Robert Dew (Gainesville, FL, USA)<br />
Ma<strong>the</strong>us, Andre Siqueira (São Paulo, SP, Brazil)<br />
Medina-Gomez, Gema (Cambridge, United Kingdom)<br />
Milano, Michael T (Rochester, NY, USA)<br />
Min, Young Joo (Ulsan, Korea)<br />
Misawa, Takeyuki (Tokyo, Japan)<br />
Misra, Sri Prakash (Allahabad, India)<br />
Miyazaki, Masaru (Chiba, Japan)<br />
Moens, Luc (Antwerp, Belgium)<br />
Moon, Jong Ho (Bucheon, Korea)<br />
Morgan, Ka<strong>the</strong>rine A (Charleston, SC, USA)<br />
Morris, Luc G (New York, NY, USA)<br />
Morris-Stiff, Gareth (Leeds, United Kingdom)<br />
Morselli-Labate, Antonio Maria (Bologna, Italy)<br />
Mortier, Laurent (Lille, France)<br />
Motoi, Fuyuhiko (Sendai, Japan)<br />
Muddana, Venkata (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)<br />
Mullady, Daniel (St. Louis, MO, USA)<br />
Nakai, Yousuke (Tokyo, Japan)<br />
Nakano, Hiroshi (Kawasak, Japan)<br />
Nakazawa, Takahiro (Nagoya, Japan)<br />
Nakchbandi, Inaam A (Heidelberg, Germany)<br />
Naskalski, Jerzy W (Kraków, Poland)<br />
Naugler, Christopher (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)<br />
Nautiyal, Amit (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)<br />
Nayar, Manu (Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom)<br />
Nijhawan, Sandeep (Jaipur, Rajasthan, India)<br />
Nikfarjam, Mehrdad (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)<br />
Nishimori, Isao (Kochi, Japan)<br />
Nishimura, Wataru (Boston, MA, USA)<br />
Nordback, Isto (Tampere, Finland)<br />
O’Keefe, Stephen J (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)<br />
Ohnishi, Kenji (Tokyo, Japan)<br />
Okazaki, Kazuichi (Osaka, Japan)<br />
Oláh, Attila (Györ, Hungary)<br />
Omar, Salem (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)<br />
Oppong, K<strong>of</strong>i E (Newcastle upon Tyne, United<br />
Kingdom)<br />
Papachristou, Georgios I (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)<br />
Papagoras, Dimitris (Alexandroupolis, Greece)<br />
Parenti, Anna Rosita (Padua, Italy)<br />
Park, Walter G (Stanford, CA, USA)<br />
Pasetto, Lara M (Padua, Italy)<br />
Pawlik, Timothy M (Baltimore, MD, USA)<br />
Pereira, Steve (London, United Kingdom)<br />
Permert, Johan (Stockholm, Sweden)<br />
Petrone, Maria Chiara (Milan, Italy)<br />
Petruzzo, Palmina (Lyon, France)<br />
Pezzili, Raffaele (Bologna, Italy)<br />
Picon, Antonio (New York, NY, USA)<br />
Polak, Michel (Paris, France)<br />
Pupelis, Guntars (Riga, Latvia)<br />
Raitsioy, Bogdan (A<strong>the</strong>ns, Greece)<br />
Ramudo, Laura (Salamanca; Spain)<br />
Raut, Chandrajit (Boston, MA, USA)<br />
Regimbeau, Jean Marc (Amiens, France)<br />
Regnér, Sara (Lund, Sweden)<br />
Rindi, Guido (Parma, Italy)<br />
Robbins, David (New York, NY, USA)<br />
Rocca, Rodolfo (Turin, Italy)<br />
Romics, Laszlo (Györ, Hungary)<br />
Roy, André (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)<br />
Sachdev, Atul (Chandigarh, India)<br />
Saftoiu, Adrian (Craiova, Romania)<br />
Sahin-Tót, Miklós (Boston, MA, USA)<br />
Saif, Muhammad W (New Haven, CT, USA)<br />
Sakorafas, George H (A<strong>the</strong>ns, Greece)<br />
Samra, Jaswinder S (St Leonards, NSW, Australia)<br />
Sandblom, Gabriel (Uppsala, Sweden)<br />
Sandor, Frantisek (Worcester, MA, USA)<br />
Sans, M Dolors (Ann Arbor, MI, USA)<br />
Saraya, Anoop (New Delhi, India)<br />
Sastre, Juan (Valencia, Spain)<br />
Sato, Ken (Gunma, Japan)<br />
Sawaki, Akira (Aichi, Japan)<br />
Saxena, Romil (Indianapolis, IN, USA)<br />
Schima, Wolfgang (Vienna, Austria)<br />
Schinner, Sven (Düsseldorf, Germany)<br />
Schloot, Nanette (Düsseldorf, Germany)<br />
Schneider, Günter (Munich, Germany)<br />
Schnelldorfer, Thomas (Rochester, MN, USA)<br />
Schwartz, David A (Nashville, TN, USA)<br />
Scoazec, Jean-Yves (Lyon, France)<br />
Segersvärd, Ralf (Stockholm, Sweden)<br />
Seicean, Andrada (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)<br />
Sgourakis, George (A<strong>the</strong>ns, Greece)<br />
Shiba, Hiroaki (Tokyo, Japan)<br />
Silva, Rogelio G (Oak Lawn, IL, USA)<br />
Singh, Sonal (Winston Salem, NC, USA)<br />
Siriwardena, Ajith K (Manchester, United Kingdom)<br />
S<strong>of</strong>uni, Atsushi (Tokyo, Japan)<br />
Soto-Gutierrez, Alejandro (Boston, MA, USA)<br />
Sperti, Cosimo (Padua, Italy)<br />
Štimac, Davor (Rijeka, Croatia)<br />
Strong, Vivian E (New York, NY, USA)<br />
Sugimoto, Maki (Chiba, Japan)<br />
Sundaram, Magesh (Morgantown, WV, USA)<br />
Szentkereszty, Zsolt (Debrecen, Hungary)<br />
Teixeira, Renata Camara (São Paulo, SP, Brazil)<br />
Ten Kate, Miranda (Rotterdam, The Ne<strong>the</strong>rlands)<br />
Testini, Mario (Bari, Italy)<br />
Tikellis, Chris (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)<br />
Tonelli, Francesco (Florence, Italy)<br />
Treckmann, Jürgen (Essen, Germany)<br />
Tsang, Janice (Hong Kong, Hong Kong)<br />
Tsujino, Takeshi (Tokyo, Japan)<br />
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Uchida, Kazushige (Osaka, Japan)<br />
Uhlmann, Dirk (Leipzig, Germany)<br />
Uomo, Generoso (Naples, Italy)<br />
Upadhyaya, Prashant K (Omaha, NE, USA)<br />
Van Dam, Jacques (Stanford, CA, USA)<br />
van Eijck, Casper HJ (Rotterdam, The Ne<strong>the</strong>rlands)<br />
van Grevenstein, Wilhelmina MU (Rotterdam, The<br />
Ne<strong>the</strong>rlands)<br />
Vang, Russel (Baltimore, MD, USA)<br />
Vazquez-Sequeiros, Enrique (Madrid, Spain)<br />
Velanovich, Vic (Detroit, MI, USA)<br />
Verbeke, Caroline S (Leeds, United Kingdom)<br />
Visser, Brendan C (Palo Alto, CA, USA)<br />
Vlodavsky, Euvgeni (Ness-Ziona, Israel)<br />
von Dobschuetz, Ernst (Freiburg, Germany)<br />
Vullierme, Marie Pierre (Clichy La Garenne, France)<br />
Weiss, Florian (Reinbek, Germany)<br />
Westerdahl, Johan (Lund, Sweden)<br />
Whang, Edward E (Boston, MA, USA)<br />
Whitcomb, David C (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)<br />
Wilkinson, Neal W (Iowa City, IA, USA)<br />
Will, Uwe (Gera, Germany)<br />
Williams, John A (Ann Arbor, MI, USA)<br />
Witzigmann, Helmut (Dresden, Germany)<br />
Won, Justin GS (Taipei, Taiwan)<br />
Wu, Bechien U (Boston, MA, USA)<br />
Xu, Haodong (Rochester, NY, USA)<br />
Yamaguchi, Taketo (Chiba, Japan)<br />
Yamakawa, Mitsunori (Yamagata, Japan)<br />
Yamao, Kenji (Aichi, Japan)<br />
Yan, Brian (Calgary, Alberta, Canada)<br />
Yasuda, Takeo (Osaka, Japan)<br />
Yegen, Cumhur (Istanbul, Turkey)<br />
Yekebas, Emre F (Hamburg, Germany)<br />
Yoo, Kyo-Sang (Anyang, Korea)<br />
Zerbi, Alessandro (Milan, Italy)<br />
Zins, Marc (Paris, France)<br />
Zou, Chao Chun (Hangzhou, China)<br />
Zundel, Natan (Weston, FL, USA)<br />
Zyromski, Nicholas Joseph (Indianapolis, IN, USA)<br />
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