Acknowledgement to the Reviewers

Acknowledgement to the Reviewers From September 15, 2007, to September 12, 2008, the following reviewers assisted the editors with reviews of the submitted papers. The editors would like to thank the following colleagues: Maha Abdellatif, Newark, N.J., USA Jawdat Abdulla, Hellerup, Denmark David Adams, New York, N.Y., USA Ian Adatia, San Francisco, Calif., USA Constantina Aggeli, Athens, Greece Eustachio Agricola, Milano, Italy Nawwar Al-Attar, Paris, France Joseph S. Alpert, Tucson, Ariz., USA Ezra Amsterdam, Davis, Calif., USA Geir O. Andersen, Oslo, Norway Robert H. Anderson, London, U.K. Kristin Angel, Oslo, Norway Aristidis Androulakis, Athens, Greece Jane Armitage, Oxford, U.K. Wilbert S. Aronow, Valhalla, N.Y., USA Satish Arora, Oslo, Norway Dan Atar, Oslo, Norway Emile A. Bacha, Boston, Mass., USA Karen O. Badellino, Philadelphia, Pa., USA Juan J. Badimon, New York, N.Y., USA Peter Bai, Illkirch, France Seshadri Balaji, Portland, Oreg., USA Subhash Banerjee, Dallas, Tex., USA Eddy Barasch, Roslyn, N.Y., USA Jeroen Bax, Leiden, The Netherlands Michal Benderly, Tel Hashomer, Israel David G. Benditt, Minneapolis, Minn., USA Lee N. Benson, Toronto, Ont., Canada Paulo Bettencourt, Porto, Portugal Barbara Biedermann, Basel, Switzerland Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Turin, Italy Yochai Birnbaum, Galveston, Tex., USA Karl G. Blaasaas, Oslo, Norway Antoine Bloch, Meyrin-Geneva, Switzerland Bernard Boal, Manhasset, N.Y., USA Olga Bondarenko, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Robert O. Bonow, Chicago, Ill., USA Pier Andrea Borea, Ferrara, Italy Harisios Boudoulas, Athens, Greece Milton Braunstein, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., USA Molly Bray, Houston, Tex., USA Frank Breuckmann, Essen, Germany © 2008 S. Karger AG, Basel Fax +41 61 306 12 34 E-Mail karger@karger.ch www.karger.com Accessible online at: www.karger.com/crd Carlo Briguori, Naples, Italy Nancy J. Brown, Nashville, Tenn., USA Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Rome, Italy Rohit Budhiraja, Tucson, Ariz., USA Adam Budzikowski, New York, N.Y., USA Paolo Calabro, Naples, Italy Maxime Cannesson, Pierre Bénite, France Blase Anthony Carabello, Houston, Tex., USA Malin Carlsson, Lund, Sweden Serge Carrier, Montreal, Ont., Canada Alberico Catapano, Milan, Italy Robert D. Chait, West Palm Beach, Fla., USA Kanu Chatterjee, San Francisco, Calif., USA Melvin D. Cheitlin, San Francisco, Calif., USA J.G. Cleland, Kingston-upon-Hull, U.K. Michael Coady, Woonsocket, R.I., USA Peter F. Cohn, Stony Brook, N.Y., USA Shelley A. Cole, San Antonio, Tex., USA Christian Constance, Montreal, Ont., Canada Domenico Corradi, Parma, Italy Michael H. Crawford, San Francisco, Calif., USA Vivienne L.S. Crawford, Belfast, U.K. Michael T. Crow, Baltimore, Md., USA Sergio Dalla-Volta, Padova, Italy Dipak Das, Farmington, Conn., USA Constantinos Davos, Athens, Greece Jacques M. de Bakker, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Etienne Delacretaz, Bern, Switzerland Carmen W. Dessauer, Houston, Tex., USA Oliver Dewald, Bonn, Germany Sukhbir Dhamrait, London, U.K. Stefan Dhein, Leipzig, Germany Harry Dietz, Baltimore, Md., USA Javier Diez, Pamplona, Spain Stefanie Dimmeler, Frankfurt, Germany J. Ding, Winston-Salem, N.C., USA Germano Di Sciascio, Rome, Italy Jörgen Dissing, Copenhagen, Denmark Ulrik Dixen, Hellerup, Denmark Erwan Donal, Rennes, France Randal O. Dull, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA Regina Dutkowski, Nutley, N.J., USA George Efthymiadis, Thessaloniki, Greece Howard J. Eisen, Philadelphia, Pa., USA John A. Elefteriades, New Haven, Conn., USA Bassem El-Masri, New York, N.Y., USA Norman H. Erenrich, West Palm Beach, Fla., USA Urs Eriksson, Basel, Switzerland Michael D. Ezekowitz, Wynnewood, Pa., USA Gian Paolo Fadini, Padova, Italy Jing Fang, Atlanta, Ga., USA Paul W. Fedak, Toronto, Ont., Canada Peter Feig, Blue Bell, Pa., USA François Feihl, Lausanne, Switzerland Moshe Flugelman, Haifa, Israel Ian Ford, Glasgow, U.K. Kolbjorn Forfang, Oslo, Norway Gary S. Francis, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Daniel Frisch, Philadelphia, Pa., USA Michael Fu, Göteborg, Sweden Valentin Fuster, New York, N.Y., USA Donna Gallik, Beverly Hills, Calif., USA David C. Gaze, London, U.K. Yong-Jian Geng, Houston, Tex., USA Gian-Franco Gensini, Florence, Italy Tjeerd Germans, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Bernard Gersh, Rochester, Minn., USA Bernard Geudelin, Allschwil, Switzerland Edward A. Gill, Denver, Colo., USA Jeffrey Gold, Toledo, Ohio, USA Pascal J. Goldschmidt, Boca Raton, Fla., USA Mervyn Gotsman, Jerusalem, Israel Assen R. Goudev, Sofia, Bulgaria John Goudevenos, Athens, Greece Anthony O. Gramolini, Toronto, Ont., Canada Riccarda Granata, Turin, Italy Daniel Griese, Regensburg, Germany Vinod K. Gupta, Simi Valley, Calif., USA Soneil Guptha, Whitehouse Station, N.J., USA Ida Gustafsson, Frederiksberg, Denmark Gilbert Habib, Marseille, France Jonas Hallén, Oslo, Norway Jonathan Halperin, New York, N.Y., USA Meilan Han, Ann Arbor, Mich., USA H. Hänninen, Helsinki, Finland Britta Hardy, Petah Tikva, Israel David Hasdai, Petah Tikva, Israel Joerg Heineke, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Alan W. Heldman, Miami, Fla., USA M. Hersberger, Zürich, Switzerland L. David Hillis, San Antonio, Tex., USA Ken-ichi Hirata, Kobe, Japan Michael M. Hoffmann, Freiburg i. Br., Germany Masatsugu Hori, Suita, Japan Xupei Huang, Boca Raton, Fla., USA Steen Husted, Aarhus, Denmark Zaza Iakobishvili, Petah Tikva, Israel Yasuhiro Ikeda, Ube, Japan O. Wayne Isom, New York, N.Y., USA Eric Isselbacher, Boston, Mass., USA Ashley S. Izzard, Manchester, U.K. Allan S. Jaffe, Rochester, Minn., USA Ronen Jaffe, Haifa, Israel Michael C. Jaye, King of Prussia, Pa., USA Christian M. Jespersen, Bagsvaerd, Denmark Sahin Kaplan, Trabzon, Turkey Georgios Karatasakis, Athens, Greece John T. Kassotis, Brooklyn, N.Y., USA Hugo A. Katus, Heidelberg, Germany Elizabeth S. Kaufman, Cleveland, Ohio, USA S. Sajid H. Kazmi, Oslo, Norway Nicholas Z. Kerin, West Bloomfield, Mich., USA Klaus Kettering, Mainz, Germany Joshua Kieval, Atlantis, Fla., USA Takeshi Kimura, Kyoto, Japan Norimitsu Kinoshita, Yokohama, Japan Keld Kjeldsen, Copenhagen, Denmark Paul Kligfield, New York, N.Y., USA Magorzata Kobusiak-Prokopowicz, Wroclaw, Poland Tilo Kölbel, Malmö, Sweden Xiangqing Kong, Nanjing, China Frederic Kontny, Oslo, Norway Ran Kornowski, Petach Tikva, Israel Karam Kostner, Brisbane, Qld., Australia Peter Kowey, Wynnewood, Pa., USA Lawrence Krakoff, Englewood, Colo., USA Christopher M. Kramer, Charlottesville, Va., USA Thomas Krasemann, London, U.K. Acknowledgement to the Reviewers Leslie Kuhn, New York, N.Y., USA J.A. Kuivenhoven, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Shrinivas K. Kulkarni, Chandigarh, India Satoshi Kurisu, Hiroshima, Japan Patrizio Lancellotti, Liege, Belgium Roberto Lang, Chicago, Ill., USA Warren Laskey, Albuquerque, N. Mex., USA William E. Lawson, Stony Brook, N.Y., USA Jason M. Lazar, Brooklyn, N.Y., USA Marc Leeman, Brussels, Belgium Uwe Lendeckel, Magdeburg, Germany Michael Lesch, New York, N.Y., USA Basil S. Lewis, Haifa, Israel Marian Limacher, Gainesville, Fla., USA Paul Lindower, Iowa City, Iowa, USA Merry L. Lindsey, San Antonio, Tex., USA Jingwen Liu, Palo Alto, Calif., USA Steven G. Lloyd, Birmingham, Ala., USA Jose-Luis Lopez-Sendon, Madrid, Spain Adrian F. Low, Singapore, Singapore Peter MacDonald, Darlinghurst, N.S.W., Australia François Mach, Geneva, Switzerland Michael Mack, Dallas, Tex., USA Jan Kyst Madsen, Hellerup, Denmark Ehtisham Mahmud, San Diego, Calif., USA William H. Maisel, Boston, Mass., USA Ziad Mallat, Paris, France Athanassios Manginas, Athens, Greece Matteo E. Mangoni, Montpellier, France Santica M. Marcovina, Seattle, Wash., USA Frank Marcus, Tucson, Ariz., USA Ali J. Marian, Houston, Tex., USA Steven M. Markowitz, New York, N.Y., USA James Marsh, Little Rock, Ark., USA Felipe A. Martinez, Cordoba, Argentina Kazuko Masuo, Melbourne, Vic., Australia Peter Matt, Baltimore, Md., USA Sophia Mavrogeni, Athens, Greece Pamela A. McCaskie, Nedlands, W.A., Australia Bernhard Meier, Bern, Switzerland Morten Nissen Melsom, Hakadal, Norway Robert M. Mentzer, Detroit, Mich., USA Jay Midwall, Atlantis, Fla., USA Alan B. Miller, Jacksonville, Fla., USA Wayne Miller, Rochester, Minn., USA Yasushi Miyauchi, Tokyo, Japan Wassim Moalla, Amiens, France Kathryn M. Momary, Chicago, Ill., USA James Moon, London, U.K. Debabrata Mukherjee, Lexington, Ky., USA Kevin M. Mulhern, Kansas City, Mo., USA Mary Mullen, Boston, Mass., USA Robert J. Myerburg, Miami, Fla., USA Jagat Narula, Orange, Calif., USA David T. Nash, Syracuse, N.Y., USA Gjin Ndrepepa, Munich, Germany Holger M. Nef, Bad Nauheim, Germany Anders Nesvold, Oslo, Norway A.C. Newby, Bristol, U.K. R. Nijveldt, Amsterdam, The Netherlands John V. Nixon, Richmond, Va., USA Koichi Node, Saga, Japan Hidemasa Oh, Kyoto, Japan Philip Oranburg, Boca Raton, Fla., USA Leiv Ose, Oslo, Norway Ernesto Oviedo-Orta, Surrey, U.K. Necla Ozer, Ankara, Turkey Sanjay K. Pandey, Carlsbad, Calif., USA Jan Parner, Copenhagen, Denmark Tomasz Janusz Pasierski, Warszawa, Poland Sanjay R. Patel, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Danijel Petrovic, Ljubljana, Slovenia Roman Pfister, Köln, Germany Bertram Pitt, Ann Arbor, Mich., USA Don Poldermans, Rotterdam, The Netherlands P. Poole-Wilson, London, U.K. Michael A. Portman, Seattle, Wash., USA Andrew Powell, Boston, Mass., USA Eric N. Prystowsky, Indianapolis, Ill., USA D. Sudhaker Rao, Detroit, Mich., USA Claudio Rapezzi, Bologna, Italy Tom Rea, Ann Arbor, Mich., USA Hermann Reichenspurner, Hamburg, Germany Walter Friedrich Riesen, St. Gallen, Switzerland Ornella Rimoldi, London, U.K. Damiano Rizzoni, Breccia, Italy Robert Roberts, Ottawa, Ont., Canada Christoph Roecken, Berlin, Germany Jack Rome, Philadelphia, Pa., USA Shimon Rosenheck, Jerusalem, Israel Raphael Rosenhek, Vienna, Austria James E. Rosenthal, Evanston, Ill., USA Gianpaolo Rossi, Padova, Italy Ronen Rubinshtein, Haifa, Israel Arash Salemi, New York, N.Y., USA Bassem A. Samad, Stockholm, Sweden Tim Sanborn, Chicago, Ill., USA Shigetake Sasayama, Kyoto, Japan Kari Saunamäki, Copenhagen, Denmark Jutta Schaper, Bad Nauheim, Germany Michael Schoppet, Marburg, Germany Arthur Schwartzbard, New York, N.Y., USA 289 Ernst R. Schwarz, Los Angeles, Calif., USA Jeffrey L. Segar, Iowa City, Iowa, USA Mario Sénéchal, Quebec, Q.C., Canada David Seo, Miami, Fla., USA Victor L. Serebruany, Towson, Md., USA Nicholas J. Severs, London, U.K. D.C. Shah, Geneva, Switzerland Samin K. Sharma, New York, N.Y., USA K. Shimada, Tokyo, Japan Rosa Sicari, Pisa, Italy Janet Sikorski, Stockholm, Sweden Antonello Silvestri, Rome, Italy Gabriele Simonini, Florence, Italy Stephen W. Smith, Minneapolis, Minn., USA Steven Snapinn, Thousand Oaks, Calif., USA John Somberg, Chicago, Ill., USA Christian Spies, Chicago, Ill., USA Paolo Spirito, Genoa, Italy David Spodick, Worcester, Mass., USA Sundararajan Srikanth, Fresno, Calif., USA Martin St. John Sutton, Philadelphia, Pa., USA D. Stakos, Alexandroupolis, Greece William C. Stanley, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 290 Mark Starling, Scottsdale, Ariz., USA Terje Steigen, Tromso, Norway Paul D. Stein, Pontiac, Mich., USA Jonathan S. Steinberg, New York, N.Y., USA Kurt Stoschizky, Graz, Austria Einar Stranden, Oslo, Norway Bodo E. Strauer, Düsseldorf, Germany Michael Studnicka, Salzburg, Austria Bernard Swynghedauw, Paris, France Zsuzsa Szondy, Debrecen, Hungary Robert S. Tan, Houston, Tex., USA Liang Tang, Indianapolis, Ill., USA Luigi Tavazzi, Pavia, Italy Alvin Teirstein, New York, N.Y., USA Babie Teng, Houston, Tex., USA Hiroshi Teragawa, Hiroshima, Japan Udho Thadani, Oklahoma City, Okla., USA Dimitris Tousoulis, Athens, Greece Jeffrey Towbin, Houston, Tex., USA Filippos Triposkiadis, Larissa, Greece K. Tsioufis, Athens, Greece Stelios Tzeis, Athens, Greece Demetrios Tziakas, Alexandroupolis, Greece Christian Vahlhaus, Münster, Germany Peter van der Meer, Groningen, The Netherlands Peter Vangheluwe, Leuven, Belgium Eva van Rooji, Dallas, Tex., USA George W. Vetrovec, Richmond, Va., USA Kjell Vikenes, Bergen, Norway Renu Virmani, Gaithersburg, Md., USA Charalambos Vlachopoulos, Athens, Greece Thomas von Lueder, Oslo, Norway Richard W. Watkin, Walsgrave Coventry, U.K. Xander H.T. Wehrens, Houston, Tex., USA Minxin Wei, Tianjin, China Giora Weisz, New York, N.Y., USA Jorgen Westby, Oslo, Norway Dirk Westermann, Berlin, Germany Arne Severin Westheim, Oslo, Norway Michael Widlansky, Milwaukee, Wisc., USA Klaus Witte, Hull, U.K. Jiashin Wu, Indianapolis, Ill., USA Atsushi Yamashita, Miyazaki, Japan Zhihong Yang, Fribourg, Switzerland Vikram Kumar Yeragani, Detroit, Mich., USA Ali Yildiz, Sanliurfa, Turkey M.J. Zellweger, Basel, Switzerland Jianyi Zhang, Minneapolis, Minn., USA Christian Zuppinger, Bern, Switzerland Acknowledgement to the Reviewers