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Heart Group Editors

Dr Eric Brunner, UK

Prof John GR Cleland, UK

Dr Andrea A Conti, Italy

Dr Rafael Gabriel Sanchez, Spain

Prof Gian Franco Gensini, Italy

Dr Sheldon Gottlieb, USA

Dr William B Hood Jr., USA

Dr Lee Hooper, UK

Dr Ian Jacobs, Australia

Prof John JV McMurray, UK

Ms Theresa Moore, UK

Prof Robert West, UK

Acknowledgements

We thank Knut Schroeder for his valuable contribution to the Editorial Board of the Heart Group.

We gratefully acknowledge all the hard work and enthusiasm that Tess Moore, as Review Group Coordinator (1998-2005), contributed to successfully establishing the Heart Group. We would also like to thank Kath Wornell (1998-2005) and Lucy Motherwell (2005) for their expert secretarial skills that aided the production of our reviews.

We would like to thank Maryann Napoli, Janet Wale, Anne Lydiatt, Jacqueline Page and Amy Zelmer for assisting in the drafting of some of our plain language summaries.

 

Reviewers

The following lists those who are lead authors or co-contributors of protocols and reviews published by the Cochrane Heart Group:

ARGENTINA
V Brito; A Ciapponi; J Lerman; Z Ortiz; R Pizarro; E Santiago Laffaire

AUSTRALIA
CN Aroney; L Baur; M Bennett; A Bensoussan; C Bridge; D Chang; RA Clark; J Doust; SC Faddy; JC Finn; D Gillies; SJ Grant; F Hawke; MR Hoenig; A Holdgate; SC Inglis; I Jacobs; P Jennings; N Jepson; H Kiat; NL Klupp; JP Lehm; J Malloy; A Morrison; MT Naughton; E O'Riordan; N Preston; E Petherick; IA Scott; VA Shrewsbury; P Skerritt; S Stewart; F Stoddart; EV Villanueva; M Wallen; JAE Walters; JE Wasiak; EM Wood

AUSTRIA
C Havel; H Herkner; M Müllner; J Thoennissen

BAHRAIN
A Al Hajeri; F Amin; Z Fedorowicz; BM Manzer

BRAZIL
AN Atallah; O Berwanger; JR Cardoso; AAV de Paola; ERFS Freitas; JA Marin-Neto; M Ladeira; CA Polanczyk; G Rosito; BGO Soares; HH Veloso

CANADA
O Al-Radi; D Alter; BL Bigham; SC Brooks; K Burns; SJ Connolly; E Crumley; E Crystal; C Demers; C Grant; RS Green; GH Guyatt; L Hartling; KF Hurley; R Jaeschke; P Jong; S Kisely; TP Klassen; D Lee; S Little; P Liu; DA Madani; KD Magee; D Massel; F McAlister; R McKelvie; LJ Morrison; J Robinson; BH Rowe; W Sevcik; K Sleik; B Vandermeer; JC Villar; N Wiebe; TM Yau;Y Yusuf

CHINA
H Chen;  HS Chen; J Chen; X Chen; L Deng; X Duan; XM Du; S Han; X Hu; P Huang; W JunMin ; J Li; S Li; C Liu; G Liu; J Liu; X Liu; T Lunxian; B Mao; J Ni; J Qiao; W Qin; H Qing; J Qu; Z Quin; W ShengNan; L Wang; Q Wang; J Wei; G Wu; J Wu; TX Wu; M Yang; XZ Yang; T Yu; Y Yao; Y Xie; D Xin; D Xiong; XX Zeng; J Zheng; L Zhou

DENMARK
B Als-Nielsen; C Gluud; CH Møller; T Monk-Hansen; A Hróbjartsson; L Penninga; EPrescott; DA Steinbrüchel; J Wetterslev

ECUADOR
R Hidalgo

FRANCE
E Amsallem; JF Bergmann; JP Boissel; X Bonfill; G Haddour; C Kasparian;C Lafuente-Lafuente; F Martin; S Mouly; P Nony

GERMANY
AK Frobel; S Läer; M Hulpke-Wette; A Schedlbauer; KG Schmidt

GREECE
G Salanti

IRELAND
B Buckley; MC Byrne; B Dineen; SM Smith

ITALY
A Abbate; I Abraha; P Agostoni; G Biondi-Zoccai; A Calderan; C Castelvetri; F Colivicchi; BCosmi; R D'Amico; B Girolami; M Lotrionte; M Milandri; A Montedori; Q Parisi; ARubboli; CM Silvani; A Squizzato; L Testa

MEXICO
P Reyes; M Vallejo

NEW ZEALAND
T Ginger

PHILIPPINES
A Dans; G Domingo; MGY Ong; FER Punzalan; GC Ramos; NR Rey; DRK Salvador;J Sarol; DJ Sulit

SAUDI ARABIA
B Afrane; M El Barbary; R Faris; S Robertson-Malt

SOUTH AFRICA
A Cilliers; B Mayosi

SPAIN
X Bonfill; X Bosch; E Briones; J Calaf; L Carmona; JI Emparanza; R Gabriel Sánchez; JM Garcia Alamino; I Gich; M Ignacio; J R Lacalle; MA Longas-Tejero; L Manzano; I Marin; J Marrugat; JLR Martin; M Melero-Bascones; M Roque; LM Sánchez Gomez; M Subirana

SWEDEN
I Östman-Smith

SWITZERLAND
M Briel; H Bucher; A Durand Dubief; P Hengstler; AJ Nordmann; J Young

THAILAND
A Chaikitpinyo; P Lumbiganon

THE NETHERLANDS
DPM Brandjes; AJM Cleophas; N Colman; J Dieleman; DE Grobbee; F den Hartog; EW Jansen; H Jansen; C Kalkman; TT Keller; M Levi; H Oude Luttikhuis; HM Nathoe; H Reitsma; R Scholten; V Svircevic; G van Dijk; GJMG van der Heijden; J van Klarenbosch; ATA Mairuhu; Rvan Marum; S Middeldorp; RP Stolk; W Wieling; AH Zwinderman

TURKEY
B Civelek;

UK
DG Altman; M Aarabi; C Bartlett; S Bayliss ; P Bennett; M Beranek-Stanley; J Bestall; A Beswick; T Brown; P Brindle; E Brunner; S Brunskill; A Brynes; M Burke; A Burls; J Cade; N Capps; K Campbell; S Capewell; M Charles; AY Chong; I Chung; JFG Cleland; G Clements; AJS Coats; J Cockroft; J Cordina; S Cotter; J Critchley; R Cunningham; H Dalal; G Davey Smith; P Davies; R Dickson; CJ Doree; NJ Douglas; J Dretzke; Y Dundar; M Durkin; JL Eastaugh; S Ebrahim; M Eccles; L Edmunds; M Egger; A Elder; HM Engleman; E Ernst; M Falshaw; T Fahey; M Field; A Flapan; M Flather; C Foster; N Freemantle; GFrost; A Fry-Smith; CR Gibbs; J Harrison; F Harris-Wise; C Hawkes; R Harrison; G Hewitt; JPT Higgins; RA Hill; M Hillsdon; S Hood; L Hooper; C Hyde; PJackson; JA Jolliffe; K Jolly; S Kelly; A Kelman; D Kotecha; E Knight; D Lane; R Lang; GYH Lip; L Mace; E Martin-Rendon; J Mason; A Mathur; J McMurray; G Mead; TA Millane; D Moher; THM Moore; T Moxham; A Ness; K Ngo; C O'Malley; S O'Meara; S Parsons; MH Pittler; PA Poole-Wilson; D Potter; JW Powles; H Purcell; T Quinn; J Raftery; K Rees; RA Riemersma; A Rengarajan; P Rigby; R Riha; K Schroeder; A Sen; S Singh; K Schmidt; S Stanworth; CD Summerbell; DP Taggart; F Taylor; RS Taylor; SJC Taylor; J Thompson Coon; RL Thompson; M Thorogood; WD Toff; M Underwood; KVedhara; T Walley; JE Wallis; E Walters; K Ward; R West; V Whittaker; L Wood; P Young; A Zawada

USA
A Bakhai; EB Bass; J Beyers; J Bradt; C Dileo; V Donovan; SN Goodman; WB Hood; J Ade Lemos; RL McNamara; E Miles; MR Miller; MA O'Brien; N Oldridge; NR Powe; KA Robinson; GG Schwartz; J Segal; W Shen; HH Tomasik; C Turl

VENEZUELA
AJ Martí-Carvajal

ZIMBABWE
J Manyemba

 

Additional contributors

We thank the following people for their peer review input:

ARGENTINA:
Saul Drajer

AUSTRALIA
Clare Collins; Patricia Davidson; Professor Feeney; Anthea Magarey; Elmer Villanueva

AUSTRIA
Harald Herkner

BELGIUM
Prof. De Backer; Rik Gosselink

BRAZIL
E Lima Jnr

CANADA
David Alter; Heather Boon; Margaret Harrison; W.J. Kostuk; Doug Lee; Kirk Magee; A McKelvie; G Nichol; Tom Overend; Joan Robinson; Koon Teo; AGG Turpi; JC Villar

DENMARK
H R Andersen; N Villebro

FRANCE
Dijillali Annane; M Bertrand; Michel Komajda; Paul Marik

GERMANY
E Grube; HW Hense; RK Kiefer; K Linde; J Vom Dahl; C von Schacky; EP Walmer

GREECE
GS Filippatos

INDIA
Johnson Francis

ISRAEL
PJ Hashkes; Michael Shechter

ITALY
G Biondi Zoccai;G Santoro

NETHERLANDS
Stefan Dieleman

NEW ZEALAND
C Farquhar; Jim Mann; L Voss

MALAYSIA
AM Choy

PHILIPPINES
DRK Salvador

SOUTH AFRICA
Pat Commerford; R De Decker; J Lawrenson; B Mayosi; L Opie

SPAIN
J Alonso; X Bosch; C Brotons; J Brugada; J Marrugat; J Muniz

SINGAPORE
C Chen

SWITZERLAND
Eduardo De Benedetti; Janine Dorffler-Melly; Philip Urban

TURKEY
Mehmet Kaplan

UK
Akinyemi Aje; Gensini Angelini; Raimondo Ascione; Christopher Bass; Hugh Bethell; Norman Briffa; Peter Brindle; Tamara Brown; Mike Burr; Doug Carroll; Andrew Clark; Alison Colleta; John Cordina; Franco Cuilli; George Dresser; Matthias Egger; Edzard Ernst; Mark Field; Marcus Flather; Hazel Fullerton; Patricia MGraves; Elaine Griffiths; Roger Harbord; Kate Hey; Richard Heller; Andrew Herxheimer; Ruaraidh Hill; Yingfen Hsia; Graham Jackson; Philip James; Kathleen Jones; Lisa Jones; Karl Karsh; Malcom Law; Debbie Lawlor; Greg Lip; Richard Mayou; Graham MacGregor; Hannah McGee (Ireland); John McMurray; Chris Metcalf; Paul Miller; JNolan; Julie Parkes; Andrew Parry; Tessa Parsons; Peter W. Pflugfelder; MaxPittler; John Potter; Tom Quinn; Karen Rees; Dr Reimsma; Arvind Rengarajan; Lance Richard; Julian Shield; Lindsay Stead; David Taggart; Fiona Taylor; Rod Taylor; Rachel Thompson; Richard Thompson; Margaret Thorogood; Gillian Todd; RobertTulloh; Tom Spyt; Carolyn Summerbell; Richard Vass; Abel Wakai; Dr Whitton

USA
Heather Arthur; Karen Becker; Leonard Cobb; Mario Deng; Giorigio Ghigliotti; Abby King; Carolynn Kohn; Steven Lipshulz; Susan Mandel; Karin Michels; Mohsen Sharifi; Nick Smith; Leonardo Tamariz; Thomas Wakefield; Zefeng Zhang

ZIMBABWE
Juliet Manyemba


We thank the following consumers for their contribution to the work of the Heart Group:

AUSTRALIA
Josephine Chow; Carrick Henderson; Janet Wale; Amy Zelmer

BOLIVIA
Gregorio Gonzales

CANADA
Kathy Craig; Margery Konan; Anne Lyddiatt; Jaqui Page; Anna Qualman; Durhane Wong-Reiger 

NEW ZEALAND
Marilyn Oates

THAILAND
Chapen Choprapawon

SINGAPORE
Ms Miny Samuel

UK
Gill Gyte; Andrew Herxheimer; Kathleen Jones; Elizabeth Key; Eve Knight; Shirley Manknell; David Potter; Charles Rowe; Jane Royle; Morag Webb Gonzales; Chris Wornell

US
Jane Nadel; Maryann Napol; Durhane Wong-Reiger; Janet Yarrow

The following people have provided assistance with translating foreign language papers:  

CHINA
Jing Li

ITALY
Andrea Conti

JAPAN
Mikako Hayashi; Hiroshi Miyashita

RUSSIA
Vasiliy Vlassov

UK
Celia Almeida; Trudy Bekkering; Lina Chen; Larissa Duffy; Lone Gale; Bruna Galobardes; Katerina Heikkila; Connie Junghans; Colette King; Radoslav Latinovic; Nicos Middleton; Jenny Tipping; Fenicia Vescio; Joanna Zakrewska; Catherine Zollmann

 

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