Reviewer acknowledgement 2015

Contributing reviewers

The Editors of Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases would like to thank all our reviewers who have contributed to the journal in volume 9 (2014).

Lauri Aaltonen

Finland

Damiano Abeni

Italy

Mario Abinun

United Kingdom

Marc Abramowicz

Belgium

Maria Isabel Achatz

Brazil

Maria Acosta

United States of America

David Adams

France

Johannes Aerts

Netherlands

Adnan Al-Araji

United Kingdom

Laurent Alberti

France

Fowzan Alkuraya

Saudi Arabia

Hamoud Al-Mousa

Saudi Arabia

Maud Els-Marie Andersson

Norway

Hans Andersson

United States of America

Corrado Angelini

Italy

Lieven Annemans

Belgium

Simone Ardern-Holmes

Australia

Zohar Argov

Israel

Peter Arkwright

United Kingdom

Thaís Armangue

Spain

Andrea Artoni

Italy

David Atlan

Switzerland

Shahram Attarian

France

Laura Audi

Spain

Isabelle Audo

France

Karen Avraham

Israel

Adrianus Bakermans

Netherlands

Lilia Baldazzi

Italy

Irina Bancos

United States of America

Ayla Barutchu

Austria

Murat Bastepe

United States of America

Jean Bastin

France

Neil Basu

United Kingdom

Genevieve Baujat

France

Matthias Baumgartner

Switzerland

Omer Faruk Bayrak

Turkey

Tommaso Beccari

Italy

Michael Beck

Germany

Karin Becke

Germany

Bjoern Beermann

Sweden

Nadia Belmatug

France

Bruno Bembi

Italy

Raida Ben Salah

Tunisia

Ilan Ben-Zvi

Israel

José Berciano

Spain

Carsten Bergmann

Germany

Peter Berlit

Germany

Laura Bernardini

Italy

Michael Berndt

Australia

Erik Berntorp

Sweden

Christophe Beroud

France

Enrico Bertini

Italy

Hunter Best

United States of America

Conceicao Bettencourt

United Kingdom

Jorge Bevilacqua

Chile

Marino Bianchin

Brazil

Marieke Biegstraaten

Netherlands

Maria Bitner-Glindzicz

United Kingdom

Douglas Bittel

United States of America

Craig Blackstone

United States of America

Carl Blankart

Germany

Clemens Bloetzer

Switzerland

Olivia Boccara

France

Olaf Bodamer

United States of America

Sylvia Boesch

Austria

Amanda Bok

Belgium

Luisa Bonafé

Switzerland

Vincenzo Bonifati

Netherlands

Josh Bonkowsky

United States of America

Mieke Boon

Belgium

David Booth

Australia

Luca Borradori

Switzerland

Annet Bosch

Netherlands

Laurence Bouillet

France

Rose-Mary Boustany

Lebanon

Breidge Boyle

United Kingdom

Helen Boyle

France

Adrian Brady

Ireland

Roscoe Brady

United States of America

Darrin Brager

United States of America

Mariana Brait

United States of America

Allison Brashear

United States of America

Nancy Braverman

Canada

Guilherme Bresciani

Chile

Corstiaan Breugem

Netherlands

Michael Briggs

United Kingdom

Steven Brody

United States of America

Alexander Broomfield

United Kingdom

Andrew Brown

Australia

Steve Brown

United Kingdom

Michael Brudno

Canada

Carlo Brugnara

United States of America

Cecilia Bucci

Italy

Peter Burgard

Germany

Lydie Burglen

France

Alberto Burlina

Italy

Patricia Burrows

United States of America

Monica Busse

United Kingdom

Kimberly Bussey

United States of America

Peter Byers

United States of America

Teresa Caballero

Spain

Philippe Camus

France

Andrew Cant

United Kingdom

Luca Cantarini

Italy

Valerio Carelli

Italy

Rachel Carling

United Kingdom

Carlos Casasnovas

Spain

Philippe Cassier

France

Marco Castori

Italy

Spero Cataland

United States of America

Salvatore Cazzato

Italy

Irene Ceballos-Picot

France

Stephen Cederbaum

United States of America

Marie-Camille Chaumais

France

David Cheillan

France

Jamel Chelly

France

Jose Chies

Brazil

Patrick Chinnery

United Kingdom

Carlo Chizzolini

Switzerland

Bodemer Christine

France

Brian Hon-yin Chung

Hong Kong

Marco Cicardi

Italy

Joe Clarke

Canada

Lorne Clarke

Canada

Monique Cloherty

United Kingdom

Harold Collard

United States of America

Lucy Collis

United Kingdom

Isabel Conceição

Portugal

Robert Cooper

United Kingdom

Valerie Cormier-Daire

France

Harriet Corvol

France

Vincent Cottin

France

Timothy Martin Cox

United Kingdom

Daniela Curti

Italy

Bogdan Cylwik

Poland

Bruno Dallapiccola

Italy

Anne D'Andon

France

Orbach Daniel

France

Fereydoun Davatchi

Iran

Hugh Dawkins

Australia

Julie De Backer

Belgium

Thomas de Broucker

France

Arjan de Brouwer

Netherlands

Jessica de Greef

United States of America

Gerard de Jong

Australia

Gérard de Pouvourville

France

Oriol de Solà-Morales

Spain

Hubert de Verneuil

France

Maria Debiec-Rychter

Bhutan

Patrick Deegan

United Kingdom

Bertrand Degos

France

Christine Delprat

France

Federica Deodato

Italy

David Derry

United Kingdom

Vincent Des Portes

France

Rachel Desailloud

France

Karl Desch

United States of America

Robert Desnick

United States of America

Grazia Devigili

Italy

Ferdinand Dhombres

France

Nataliya Di Donato

Germany

Maria Cristina Digilio

Italy

Carlo Dionisi-Vici

Italy

Jean Donadieu

France

Maria Teresa Dotti

Italy

Diane Doummar

France

Sophie Dupuis-Girod

France

Marinus Duran

Netherlands

Andrew Dwyer

Switzerland

Melanie Ehrlich

United States of America

Christa Einspieler

Austria

Aziz El-Amraoui

France

Peter Elias

United States of America

Paul Engel

Ireland

Gregory Enns

United States of America

Robert Eppsteiner

United States of America

Kelly Evans

United States of America

Olivier Fain

France

Julien Faure

France

François Feillet

France

Jilles Fermont

United Kingdom

Sebastiano Filetti

Italy

Andrea Finocchi

Italy

Josef Finsterer

Austria

Gilberto Fischer

Brazil

Kathelijn Fischer

Netherlands

William Foulkes

Canada

Brunella Franco

Italy

Michael Frank

United States of America

Hudson Freeze

United States of America

Roseline Froissart

France

Tod Fullston

Australia

Vilma Gabbay

United States of America

Andreas Gal

Germany

Livia Garavelli

Italy

Gemma Gatta

Italy

Andrew Gennery

United Kingdom

Piero Giordano

Netherlands

Santhosh Girirajan

United States of America

Emma Glamuzina

New Zealand

Grainne Gorman

United Kingdom

Philippe Gorry

France

Gilles Grateau

France

Josep Grau

Spain

Paolo Gresele

Italy

Robert Griggs

United States of America

Daniel Grinberg

Spain

Stephanie Grunewald

United Kingdom

Ghiabe Guibinga

United States of America

Fiorella Gurrieri

Italy

Johannes Häberle

Switzerland

Eric Hachulla

France

Alice Hadchouel

France

Smail Hadj-Rabia

France

Xianlin Han

United States of America

Jennifer Hand

United States of America

Karen Hansen

United States of America

Sergio Harari

Italy

Jean-Pierre Hardelin

France

Paul Harmatz

United States of America

Vanessa Harrar

United Kingdom

Dominik Hartl

Germany

Cristina Has

Germany

Daiichiro Hasegawa

Japan

Karen Heath

Spain

Adam Heathfield

United Kingdom

Chad Heatwole

United States of America

Matthew Helbert

United Kingdom

Christian Hendriksz

United Kingdom

Elizabeth Hernberg-Stahl

Sweden

Frederik Hes

Netherlands

James Heubi

United States of America

Wendy Heywood

United Kingdom

Ralf-Dieter Hilgers

Germany

Virginie Hivert

France

Jeffrey Hoag

United States of America

Franziska Hoche

United States of America

Georg Hoffmann

Germany

Carla Hollak

Netherlands

Aidan Hollis

Canada

Elisabeth Holme

Sweden

Manfred Hönig

Germany

Sander Michel Houten

United States of America

Riekelt Houtkooper

Netherlands

Lucile Houyel

France

Charlotte Höybye

Sweden

Ieuan Hughes

United Kingdom

Wills Hughes-Wilson

Sweden

Peter Humphreys

Canada

Susan Huson

United Kingdom

Adam Hutchings

United Kingdom

Dai Inoue

Japan

Alfonso Iorio

Canada

Desguerre Isabelle

France

Kinya Ishikawa

Japan

Peter Itin

Switzerland

Kentaro Iwata

Japan

Marshall Jacobs

United States of America

Gritta Janka

Germany

Clara Jaramillo

France

Giridhara Rao Jayandharan

India

Frederic Jehan

France

Zhanjun Jia

United States of America

Hong Jiang

United States of America

Xuntian Jiang

United States of America

Adriano Jimenez

Spain

Dong-Kyu Jin

South Korea

Hyder Jinnah

United States of America

Micallef Joelle

France

Colin Johnson

United Kingdom

Pascal Joly

France

Elizabeth Jones

United Kingdom

Roberta Joppi

Italy

Albena Jordanova

Belgium

Bardakdjian-Michau Josiane

France

Harald Jueppner

United States of America

Daria Julkowska

France

Hyunmin Jung

United States of America

Marshall Kadin

United States of America

Harald Kaemmerer

Germany

Rim Kahloun

Tunisia

Noor Kalsheker

United Kingdom

Tim Kanters

Netherlands

Paige Kaplan

United States of America

Daniela Karall

Austria

Henrik Karring

Denmark

Antonis Kattamis

Greece

David Kelsell

United Kingdom

David Ketteridge

Australia

Babak Khoshnood

France

Joseph Khoury

United States of America

Jung-Wook Kim

South Korea

Dimitra Kiritsi

Germany

Peter Kisfali

Hungary

Philipp Klaritsch

Austria

Tjitske Kleefstra

Netherlands

Joerg Klepper

Germany

Armin Koch

Germany

Tomoko Kodama

Japan

Franz Koenig

Austria

Sebastian Köhler

Germany

Alfried Kohlschuetter

Germany

Cornelia Kornblum

Germany

Ina Kötter

Germany

Markus Kraemer

Germany

Wolfram Kress

Germany

Usha Krishnan

Australia

Lauren Krivitzky

United States of America

Roland Kuiper

Netherlands

Manju Kurian

United Kingdom

François Labarthe

France

Philippe Labrune

France

Robin Lachmann

United Kingdom

Pascal Laforêt

France

Martin Laimer

Austria

Nigel Laing

Australia

Marc Lalande

United States of America

Wayne Lam

United Kingdom

Michele Lambert

United States of America

Linn Landrø

Norway

Mirjam Langeveld

Netherlands

Craig Langman

United States of America

Pablo Lapunzina

Spain

Lidia Larizza

Italy

Alexandre Lautrette

France

Matthias Lavens

Belgium

Christine Lavery

United Kingdom

Conxi Lázaro

Spain

Romain Lazor

Switzerland

Francois Le Loarer

France

Alexandra Leary

France

Caroline Leclercq

France

Carolina Lemos

Portugal

Helen Leonard

Australia

Jana Lepiksone

Latvia

Li Lin

United States of America

Ales Linhart

Czech Republic

Gabor Egon Linthorst

Netherlands

Christian Lobsiger

France

Hilary Longhurst

United Kingdom

Nicola Longo

United States of America

Maurizio Luisetti

Italy

Rigmor Lundby

Norway

Svetlana Lutsenko

United States of America

Alan Ma

Australia

Lijiang Ma

United States of America

Anita MacDonald

United Kingdom

Karen Lindhardt Madsen

Denmark

Esther Maier

Germany

Michael Makris

United Kingdom

David Malkin

Canada

Anwar Suleman Mall

South Africa

Renzo Manara

Italy

Maria Elisa Mancuso

Italy

Hanna Mandel

Israel

Pier Mannuccio Mannucci

Italy

Renato Mantegazza

Italy

Mario Manto

Belgium

Pineda Marfa

Spain

Christophe Mariat

France

Sandrine Marie

Belgium

Branka Marinovic

Croatia

Simone Martinelli

Italy

Rudolf Martini

Germany

Esmeralda Martins

Portugal

Jose Mascaro

Spain

Mariana Maschietto

Brazil

Andrea Masotti

Italy

Yves Maury

France

Alison May

United Kingdom

Jim McGill

Australia

John McGrath

United Kingdom

Anil Mehta

United Kingdom

Meir Mei-Zahav

Israel

Daniela Melis

Italy

Eugen Mengel

Germany

Fred Menko

Netherlands

Björn Menten

Belgium

Saadet Mercimek-Mahmutoglu

Canada

Maria Merino

United States of America

Peter Merkus

Netherlands

Lawrence Merritt

United States of America

Fredrik Mertens

Sweden

Aine Merwick

United Kingdom

Ludwine Messiaen

United States of America

Alexander Miethke

United States of America

Jose Millan

Spain

Akio Mimori

Japan

Snezana Minic

Serbia

Pramod Mistry

United States of America

Aladdin Mohammad

Sweden

Leo Monnens

Netherlands

Adriana Montano

United States of America

Michael Montemurro

Switzerland

Ute Moog

Germany

Eva Morava

United States of America

Thomas Morel

Belgium

Takayuki Morisaki

Japan

Jean-François Mornex

France

Richard Moscicki

United States of America

Andrew Mumford

United Kingdom

Craig Munns

Australia

Francisco Muñoz-Beamud

Spain

Alessandro Mussa

Italy

Martha Nance

United States of America

Nadia Nathan

France

Katherine Needleman

United States of America

Juergen Neesen

Austria

John Neidhardt

Germany

Giovanni Neri

Italy

Bénédicte Neven

France

Elena Nicod

United Kingdom

Lawrence Nogee

United States of America

Patrice Nony

France

Declan Noone

Ireland

William Nyhan

United States of America

Anita Oberbauer

United States of America

Sarah O'Brien

United States of America

Simon Olpin

United Kingdom

Rikke Olsen

Denmark

Osamu Onodera

Japan

Antonio Orlacchio

Italy

Augusto Orlandi

Italy

Massimiliano Paganelli

Canada

Michael Paine

United States of America

Francesc Palau

Spain

Mario Palermo

Italy

Michael Palladino

United States of America

Massimo Pandolfo

Belgium

Helen Papadaki

Greece

Joseph Parambil

United States of America

Davide Pareyson

Italy

Rossella Parini

Italy

Samantha Parker

France

Eduard Paschke

Austria

Juan Pascual

United States of America

Gregory Pastores

Ireland

Millan Patel

Canada

Marc Patterson

United States of America

Juha Peltonen

Finland

Luiz Penalva

United States of America

Susan Perlman

United States of America

Isabelle Perrault

France

Luca Persani

Italy

Christine Petit

France

Flora Peyvandi

Italy

Eline Picavet

Belgium

Herwig Pieringer

Austria

Nicola Pimpinelli

Italy

Vinciane Pirard

Belgium

Amélie Piton

France

Violaine Plante Bordeneuve

France

Petr Pohunek

Czech Republic

Chris Porada

United States of America

Grzegorz Porebski

Poland

Siamak Pourhassan

Germany

Nicolai Preisler

Denmark

Gaetan Prevost

France

Ewa Pronicka

Poland

Hervé Puy

France

Lori Quinn

United Kingdom

Jes Rahbek

Denmark

Julian Raiman

Canada

Fabienne Rajas

France

Gopi Rangan

Australia

A. Koneti Rao

United States of America

David Rapoport

United States of America

Ana Maria Rath

France

Bernard Ravina

United States of America

Arnold Reuser

Netherlands

Nima Rezaei

Iran

Vincent M. Riccardi

United States of America

Stéphane Richard

France

Antoni Riera-Mestre

Spain

Eve Roberts

Canada

Richard Roberts

United States of America

Peter Robinson

Germany

Xavier Roca

Singapore

Diana Rodriguez

France

Charlotte Rodwell

France

Catherine Rose

Australia

Frits Rosendaal

Netherlands

Margalit Rosenkranz

United States of America

Thomas Rossor

United Kingdom

Vicente Rubio

Spain

Heiko Runz

Germany

David Saadoun

France

Denise Sabatino

United States of America

Carlo Sabbà

Italy

Carsten Saft

Germany

Jose-Alain Sahel

France

Agnes Saint Raymond

United Kingdom

Lynn Sakai

United States of America

Carlo Salvarani

Italy

Victoria San Antonio-Arce

Germany

Luca Sangiorgi

Italy

Damien Sanlaville

France

Gijs Santen

Netherlands

René Santer

Germany

Paramala Santosh

United Kingdom

Eliane Sardh

Sweden

Swati Sathe

United States of America

Nadia Sawicka-Gutaj

Poland

John Sayer

United Kingdom

Fernando Scaglia

United States of America

Angela Scheuerle

United States of America

Manuel Schiff

France

Raphael Schiffmann

United States of America

Nicolas Schleinitz

France

Enno Schmidt

Germany

Artur Schmidtchen

Sweden

Matthias Schmuth

Austria

Benedikt Schoser

Germany

Andreas Schulze

Canada

Ida Vanessa Schwartz

Brazil

Marie Scully

United Kingdom

Matthew Seaman

United Kingdom

Michael Segal

United States of America

Susana Seixas

Portugal

Duygu Selcen

United States of America

Robert Semple

United Kingdom

Bruno Sepodes

Portugal

Rony Sfeir

France

William Shafer

United States of America

Tooru Shimosegawa

Japan

Satoru Shinkuma

Japan

Yehuda Shoenfeld

Israel

Cheryl Shoubridge

Australia

Gabriele Siciliano

Italy

Eduardo Silva

Portugal

Helga Silva

Brazil

Steven Simoens

Belgium

Anna Simon

Netherlands

Alessandro Simonati

Italy

Natalie Sims

Australia

Rani Singh

United States of America

Nicolas Sireau

United Kingdom

Cassian Sitaru

Germany

Deborah Sival

Netherlands

Flemming Skovby

Denmark

Anne Slavotinek

United States of America

Jan Smeitink

Netherlands

Sarah Smithson

United Kingdom

Etienne Sochett

Canada

Javier Soto

Spain

Paolo Spagnolo

Switzerland

Carsten Speckmann

Germany

Ute Spiekerkoetter

Germany

Malte Spielmann

Germany

Isabel Spier

Germany

Edoardo Spina

Italy

Lewis Spitz

United Kingdom

Eli Sprecher

Israel

Doris Staab

Germany

Miriam Stampfer

Germany

Matthew Steensma

United States of America

Barry Stein

United States of America

Robert Steinfeld

Germany

Giovanni Stevanin

France

Fiona Stewart

United Kingdom

Constantine Stratakis

United States of America

Arnold Strauss

United States of America

Pasquale Striano

Italy

Shigeaki Suzuki

Japan

Matthis Synofzik

Germany

Agnes Szilagyi

Hungary

Ikumi Tamai

Japan

Ricardo Tapia

Mexico

Abdellatif Tazi

France

Wei-Peng Teo

Australia

Swee Lay Thein

United Kingdom

Jess Thoene

United States of America

Dagmar Timmann

Germany

Vincent Timmerman

Belgium

Brian Tom

United Kingdom

Roser Torra

Spain

Rosa J Torres

Spain

Alberto Tosetto

Italy

Isabelle Touitou

France

Mondher Toumi

France

Juan Tovar

Spain

Elias Traboulsi

United States of America

Lisbeth Tranebjaerg

Denmark

Bruce Trapnell

United States of America

Eileen Treacy

Ireland

Edward Tuddenham

United Kingdom

Anna Tylki-Szymanska

Poland

Shin-ichi Usami

Japan

Graziella Uziel

Italy

Antra Valdmane

Latvia

Enza Maria Valente

Italy

Dominique Valla

French Polynesia

G. Caroline Van Baal

Netherlands

H. Marijke van den Berg

Netherlands

Silvere van der Maarel

Netherlands

Ans van der Ploeg

Netherlands

Ingeborg van der Tweel

Netherlands

Keith Van Haren

United States of America

Veronica van Heyningen

United Kingdom

Veronica van Heyningen

United Kingdom

Lut Van Laer

Belgium

Rick van Minkelen

Netherlands

Barbara Vanderhyden

Canada

Marie Vanier

France

Roshni Vara

United Kingdom

Robert Vassallo

United States of America

Sebastiaan Vastert

Netherlands

Guillaume Velasco

France

Sebastiaan Velthuis

Netherlands

Charles Venditti

United States of America

Camiel Verhamme

Netherlands

Francis Veyckemans

Belgium

Valeria Viassolo

Switzerland

Michel Vidaud

France

Catherine Vignal Clermont

France

Lluïsa Vilageliu

Spain

Bente Vilsen

Denmark

Jerry Vockley

United States of America

Bettie Voordouw

Netherlands

Thomas Wagner

Germany

Zachary Wallace

United States of America

Maggie Walter

Germany

Zhao Wang

China

kentaro Watanabe

Japan

Stefanie Weber

Germany

Corry Weemaes

Netherlands

Neal Weinreb

United States of America

Gabrielle Wheway

United Kingdom

Dagmar Wieczorek

Germany

Frits Wijburg

Netherlands

Bridget Wilcken

Australia

Ole Winther

Denmark

Ingegerd Witt Engerström

Sweden

Pierre Wolkenstein

France

Amy Wong

Canada

Durhane Wong-Rieger

Canada

Tim Wood

United States of America

Liz Worthey

United States of America

Lawrence Wrabetz

United States of America

Chen-Chi Wu

Taiwan

Takashi Yamamura

Japan

Peizeng Yang

China

Bing Yao

United States of America

Jacques Young

France

Peter Young

Germany

Bernhard Zabel

Germany

Giovanna Zambruno

Italy

Andreas Zankl

Australia

Ginevra Zanni

Italy

Cornelia Zeidler

Germany

Sebastian Zeissig

Germany

Christina Zeitz

France

Wenping Zhao

United States of America

Ari Zimran

Israel

Christos Zouboulis

Germany

Massimo Zuin

Italy

Christiane Zweier

Germany