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Cochrane Heart Group

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Heart Group Editors

Dr Raimondo Ascione, UK

Dr Eric Brunner, UK

Prof John 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

Dr Charles Knight, UK

Prof John JV McMurray, UK

Ms Theresa Moore, UK

Prof Robert West, UK

 

Reviewers

The following lists those who are lead authors or co-authors 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; SR Kisely; NL Klupp; JP Lehm; J Malloy; A Morrison; MT Naughton; K Ngo; 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; MJ Yelland

AUSTRIA
J Arrich; 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
SP Adams; O Al-Radi; D Alter; BL Bigham; SC Brooks; K Burns; LA Campbell; 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; M Tsang; B Vandermeer; JC Villar; N Wiebe; JM Wright; TM Yau;Y Yusuf

CHILE

F Baraona; R Candia; JC Claro; F Larrondo; LM Letelier; G Rada

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
H Baumeister; J Bengel; AK Frobel; N Hutter; S Läer; M Hulpke-Wette; MH Pittler; A Schedlbauer; KG Schmidt

GREECE
D Lathyris; 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; B Cosmi; R D'Amico; B Girolami; M Lotrionte; M Milandri; A Montedori; A Palazzuoli; Q Parisi; A Rubboli; 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; H Saloojee; 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; I Sola; 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
SM Arbous; DPM Brandjes; AJM Cleophas; N Colman; OM Dekkers; J Dieleman; DE Grobbee; F den Hartog; EW Jansen; H Jansen; CJ Kalkman; TT Keller; M Levi; H Oude Luttikhuis; HM Nathoe; H Reitsma; R Scholten; V Svircevic; G van Dijk; GJ van der Heijden; J van Klarenbosch; J van Paassen; DJ van Veldhuisen; ATA Mairuhu; Rvan Marum; S Middeldorp; RP Stolk; JP Vandenbroucke; 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 Burch; M Burke; A Burls; J Cade; N Capps; K Campbell; S Capewell; M Charles; AY Chong; I Chung; MJ Clarke; 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; K Ford; C Foster; N Freemantle; G Frost; 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 Manyemba; J McMurray; G Mead; TA Millane; D Moher; THM Moore; T Moxham; A Ness; C O'Malley; S O'Meara; S Parsons; 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; J Simmonds; 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; B Wider; 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

 

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; Angela W Yang

AUSTRIA
Harald Herkner

BELGIUM
Prof. De Backer; Rik Gosselink

BRAZIL
E Lima Jnr

CANADA
David Alter; Heather Arthur; 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

CHINA

Zhao Xiang Bian

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; John Parissis

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

NORWAY

Marta Ebbing

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
Arzu Daskapan; 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
Karen Becker; Leonard Cobb; Mario Deng; Jalal Ghali; 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; Tracey Lloyd; Janet Wale; Amy Zelmer

BOLIVIA
Gregorio Gonzales

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

EGYPT

Yusra Badr

NEW ZEALAND
Marilyn Oates

THAILAND
Chapen Choprapawon

SINGAPORE
Ms Miny Samuel

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

US
Donna Muscarella; Jane Nadel; Maryann Napol; Anne Peticolas; 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
Nizar Abazid; Celia Almeida; Trudy Bekkering; Lina Chen; Larissa Duffy; Lone Gale; Bruna Galobardes; Katerina Heikkila; Rein Houben; Ela Gohil; Connie Junghans; Colette King; Radoslav Latinovic; Nicos Middleton; Constanza Pizzi; Maria Podinovskaia; Jenny Tipping; Cynthia To; Fenicia Vescio; Joanna Zakrewska; Catherine Zollmann