EDITORS’ MESSAGE Last year, for the first time in the 30-year history of the Journal of Vascular SurgeryÒ, we introduced a new publication, the Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic DisordersÔ. The Society for Vascular Surgery and the American Venous Forum collaborated in the sponsorship of this new quarterly peer-reviewed publication. As we enter the second year of its publication, our vision and our commitment is to see this new publication become the leading academic journal in the field of venous and lymphatic diseases and to highlight the leadership of vascular surgeons in these areas. We were able to establish this new journal in part due to the strength and success of the Journal of Vascular SurgeryÒ. Despite increasing competition in the journalistic community, by all metrics, the Journal of Vascular SurgeryÒ continues to be the leading and most influential vascular surgical journal. Our pre-eminence in the publication of clinical and research studies in the vascular surgical, endovascular, and medical management of vascular disease is reflected in the observation that in 2014 we received >1800 manuscript submissions, an all-time record high, with >60% of the manuscripts submitted from outside the United States, reflecting the international status of the publication. The Journal of Vascular SurgeryÒ, by all objective metrics, has become the pre-eminent publication in the field of vascular and endovascular therapy in the world. However, we recognize that continued success in any endeavor requires maintaining one’s core values and adhering to one’s fundamental mission while continuously adapting strategies to a changing world. In fact, the world of academic publishing is rapidly evolving with the introduction and growth of open access publishing. As we enter this New Year, we are proud to introduce the third peer-reviewed publication of the Society for Vascular Surgery: the Journal of Vascular SurgeryÒ Cases. This new journal, devoted exclusively to the publication of the highest-quality case reports and vascular images, represents the Society’s first open access publication. In addition to allowing us to enter this new publishing model, it will allow us to increase the publication of case reports and vascular images, two manuscript types that are extremely popular among our readership. To continue to steward the maturation of the Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic DisordersÔ and guide the development of the Journal of Vascular SurgeryÒ Cases, we are pleased to accept the offer of the Society for Vascular Surgery Publishing Committee to extend our editorial leadership roles into 2016. We remain proud to continue in these roles and are excited about the future of what is now our family of peer-reviewed publications. Our editorial mission has been to not only serve as stewards of the tradition of excellence that has been the hallmark of the Journal of Vascular SurgeryÒ since its inception but also to strive to improve continually the product that we bring to our readership. As we bring this year to a close, we can confidently report that the state of the primary publication of the Society for Vascular Surgery is stronger than ever, and about to become even stronger. Although we have remained true to the mission of the Journal in publishing high-quality clinical and basic science research studies, we have also been mindful of our responsibility to serve the educational and practice needs of the broad readership we serve, including practicing vascular and endovascular surgeons in community and academic practice and surgeons in training. With new information being developed faster than at any time in our history and practice paradigms continually evolving, as we move forward, we will be publishing an increasing number of special feature manuscripts that will bring this evolving information to our readers in a user-friendly fashion such as review articles and meta-analyses. The expansion of our publication products represents an affirmation of our commitment to that ideal. Our editorial leadership of the Journal of Vascular SurgeryÒ reflects our commitment to the fundamental mission of the Journal; namely, the publication of the most scholarly clinical and basic science research studies and unique case reports in the area of circulatory disease in addition to adding new special features of interest to the vascular specialist. The high quality of the published work would not be possible without the compulsive, rigorous, thoughtful, and constructive nature of our reviewers’ critiques, the support of our partners on the editorial leadership team, and the excellence and attention to detail of our editorial team. We are indebted to all these stakeholders for the thoroughness and fairness of our peer-review process and the smooth operation of the Journal. We truly appreciate their support as we seamlessly launched the Journal of Vascular Surgery: Venous and Lymphatic DisordersÔ and now also launch the Journal of Vascular SurgeryÒ Cases. Entering this New Year we remain mindful of our responsibility to our readership and dedicated to continually improve the quality of our publishing products. We wish you all a wonderful holiday season, and a happy, healthy, and peaceful New Year. Anton N. Sidawy, MD, MPH Editor-in-Chief
Bruce A. Perler, MD, MBA Senior Editor
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF REVIEWERS The Journal uses a rigorous peer-review process, in which each submitted manuscript is externally reviewed by at least three people, including at least one member of the Editorial Board, selected for their expertise in the particular topic that is the subject of the manuscript. The Editors then carefully consider these reviews. To review this large number of submitted manuscripts, in addition to our Editorial Board members, nearly 400 individuals participated as reviewers for the Journal during the past year. The Editors would like to acknowledge all of the reviewers who have contributed to this process during that time, and whose efforts are so critical to making the Journal the outstanding scientific publication that it has become. This is a voluntary effort performed by individuals during their personal time to advance the discipline of vascular surgery and endovascular therapy. The quality and effect of any scientific journal is primarily dependent on the quality of its peerreview process. We have been extremely impressed by the rigor and insightfulness of reviews performed for the Journal, which in many cases have substantially improved the quality of our published articles and therefore the overall quality of the Journal. The Editors express our sincerest thanks to all reviewers for their contributions this past year. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ASSOCIATE AND ASSISTANT EDITORS We are very grateful for the contributions of our Associate Editors during this past year: Drs Thomas Brothers and Thomas Forbes, who serve as Clinical Studies Editors, and Dr Peter Henke who serves as the Basic Science Editor. Their efforts have ensured both the timeliness and quality of our review process, especially during this past year with the increased editorial workload, and they each have contributed significantly to the success and quality of the Journal. We also want to express our sincerest appreciation to our Assistant Editors, who have also participated in the editorial leadership of the Journal. They have helped solicit, select, and write content for various sections, including several new features introduced this year that have significantly broadened and enhanced the overall content and value of the Journal for our readership. We are especially grateful to Dr James Jones for his contributions as Editor of the Ethics Section, an extremely influential and popular feature of the Journal. We are also grateful for the leadership of Dr Gregory Moneta for his efforts as Editor of the Abstracts Section, Dr Richard Cambria for his management of the Review Article Section, and Dr Peter Lawrence, who has managed several special features, including Vascular & Endovascular Techniques, Practice Management, Clinical Trials Update, and Expert Debates. Special thanks also to Dr Norman Rich for his leadership in developing and managing our Historical Vignettes feature. We would also like to thank Dr Sean Roddy, who is responsible for the CPT Advisor’s Section, one of several features added to the Journal with the practicing vascular surgeon in mind. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD Each manuscript received by the Editors is rated according to its quality, accuracy, insight, and helpfulness to the authors of the submission and to the Editors. Editorial Board members are selected on the basis of an objective evaluation of the quantity, quality, and timeliness of their peer reviews. Our goal is to include as many of our best reviewers as possible on the Editorial Board. Original manuscripts submitted to the Journal are reviewed by at least one member of the Editorial Board, who also submit Invited Commentaries and perform other duties for the Journal. During the past year, members of the Editorial Board each performed an average of 13 reviews and accounted for 29% of all the reviews that were done. The Editors would particularly like to recognize the following Editorial Board members who will be retiring from the Board after many years of valuable service and countless hours of unselfish work in this process. We would also like to welcome the new members of the Editorial Board, selected according to the process described above and who will begin in January. CONTINUING BOARD MEMBERS Ahmed M. Abou-Zamzam Ali F. AbuRahma Joseph P. Archie Zachary M. Arthurs Jan D. Blankensteijn Keith D. Calligaro William Darrin Clouse Mark Frederick Conrad Michael C. Dalsing Paul Joseph DiMuzio Magruder C. Donaldson Matthew J. Eagleton Eric David Endean Luke S. Erdoes
William R. Flinn Spencer Galt Linda Harris Thomas S. Huber Vikram S. Kashyap Timothy F. Kresowik Luis R. Leon Bo Liu William C. Mackey William A. Marston Robert A. McCready J. Gregory Modrall Thomas F. O’Donnell Patrick J. O’Hara Marc A. Passman William C. Pevec
Joseph D. Raffetto Timothy A. Resch Michael J. Rohrer Eva M. Rzucidlo Andres Schanzer Lewis B. Schwartz Cynthia K. Shortell Benjamin Ware Starnes R. James Valentine Thomas W. Wakefield RETIRING BOARD MEMBERS Hasan H. Dosluoglu Randolph L. Geary Glenn R. Jacobowitz
William D. Jordan Jeffrey L. Kaufman Gregory J. Landry Carlos H. Timaran Gerald S. Treiman
NEW BOARD MEMBERS Ruth L. Bush Alik Farber Mathew Longo George H. Meier Richard F. Neville Robert B. Patterson Fred A. Weaver Jonathan Weiswasser
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DISTINGUISHED REVIEWERS The Editors would also like to recognize a group of distinguished reviewers, who have performed more than six reviews for the Journal during the past year and who have consistently performed the highest-rated and timely reviews. These individuals have collectively contributed 45% of the total reviews. We are very grateful for their assistance and their outstanding contribution to the peer-review process.
Babak Abai Christopher J. Abularrage Mark Adelman James B. Alexander Niren Angle Joshua David Arnold Robert G. Atnip Martin R. Back Dennis F. Bandyk Neal R. Barshes Adam W. Beck Michael Belkin Daniel J. Bertges Jean Bismuth John Blebea Bruce J. Brener Ruth L. Bush Jacob Buth Jerry Chen Stephen W. K. Cheng Jae-Sung Cho Lori Choi Jayer Chung Timothy A. M. Chuter Anthony J. Comerota John D. Corson Alan Dardik R. Clement Darling Ellen Dillavou Maciej Lukasz Dryjski Luc Dubois James R. Elmore Guillermo A. Escobar Darwin Eton Alik Farber Katherine Ann Gallagher Nitin Garg
Robert P. Garvin Peter Gloviczki Randolph P. Guzman Raul J. Guzman John P. Harris Joseph Patrick Hart Dean A. Healy Norman R. Hertzer Jamal J. Hoballah Justin Hurie Karl A. Illig Jeffrey Indes Benjamin M. Jackson Steven G. Katz Lois A. Killewich Ted R. Kohler Ralf R. Kolvenbach Purandath Lall Michael P. Lilly Bengt Lindblad Evan C. Lipsitz G. Matthew Longo Ying Wei Lum Fedor Lurie Sean P. Lyden Thomas G. Lynch Robyn Macsata M. Ashraf Mansour Tara Marie Mastracci George H. Meier Joseph L. Mills Ross Milner Mark D. Morasch Nicholas Morrissey Albeir Mousa Firas Fuad Mussa
Stuart I. Myers Robert B. Patterson Mark A. Patterson Lakshmikumar Pillai Frank B. Pomposelli Janet T. Powell Adam Power Ravi R. Rajani Kathleen Raman Robert Young Rhee John J. Ricotta Jacob G. Robison Caron B. Rockman Hazim J. Safi Shawn Sarin Joseph R. Schneider Charles J. Shanley Michael J. Singh Niten Singh Matthew R. Smeds W. Charles Sternbergh III David H. Stone Scott M. Surowiec Gale Tang Robert W. Thompson Gilbert R. Upchurch Andre Van Rij Marc R. H. M. van Sambeek Juan Leonel Villavicencio Jean-Paul de Vries Eric Wahlberg Fred A. Weaver Jonathan Weiswasser John V. White Wei Zhou
REVIEWERS In addition, the Editors would like to recognize many other individuals who performed at least one review for the Journal during the past year. This includes several new reviewers. In nearly all cases, these reviews were excellent, and they collectively represented 26% of all reviews, emphasizing the importance of each individual reviewer to the peer-review process. We hope to expand the role of these reviewers in the future and are very grateful for their efforts this year.
Julie Adams Yves S. Alimi Rolf Apweiler Shipra Arya Marvin Douglas Atkins Faisal Aziz
Ali Azizzadeh Henry V. Baker Jeffrey L. Ballard B. Timothy Baxter Frederick P. Beavers Carlos Fares Bechara
Jean-Pierre Becquemin Scott A. Berceli Thomas M. Bergamini Ramon Berguer James Hamilton Black William Todd Bohannon
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Thomas C. Bower April Boyd Benjamin Sands Brooke Jan S. Brunkwall Richard P. Cambria Piergiorgio Cao Jeffrey P. Carpenter Neal Scott Cayne Rabih Antoine Chaer Philip Chan James G. Chandler Ankur Chandra Catherine Kyonga Chang Gregory Spicer Cherr Kenneth J. Cherry Daniel G. Clair Marc Coggia Dawn Marie Coleman Michael S. Conte Joseph S. Coselli Robert Crawford Enrique Criado David L. Cull John A. Curci Bruce S. Cutler Zhiyu Dai Ronald L. Dalman David L. Dawson Jonathan Scott Deitch Florian Dick Nicolas Diehm Yves-Marie Dion Nick Dobrilovic Matthew J. Dougherty Audra A. Duncan Jonothan J. Earnshaw Hans-Henning Eckstein Matthew S. Edwards John F. Eidt Jonathan Eliason Bruce M. Elliott Mohammad H. Eslami Ronald M. Fairman Robert J. Feezor Bram Fioole Thomas L. Forbes Julie A. Freischlag Chunhua Fu Paul J. Gagne Robert H. Geelkerken Hugh Gelabert Patrick J. Geraghty David L. Gillespie Mitchell H. Goldman Jerry Goldstone Philip P. Goodney Michael J. Gough Edwin C. Gravereaux
S. Marlene Grenon Naren Gupta Albert G. Hakaim John W. Hallett Allen David Hamdan Jaap Hamming E. John Harris Heitham T. Hassoun Jennifer Heller William R. Hiatt Anil Hingorani John R. Hoch Larry Horesh Mark D. Iafrati Daniel M. Ihnat Krassi Ivancev Takehisa Iwai Michael J. H. M. Jacobs William C. Jennings Juan Carlos Jimenez Jason M. Johanning Tilo Kölbel Lowell Stuart Kabnick Manju Kalra Karthikeshwar Kasirajan Melina R. Kibbe Mark Koelemay Larry W. Kraiss David N. Ku Nicos Labropoulos James Laredo Frank A. Lederle Jason T. Lee Byung-Boong Lee Timothy K. Liem Judith C. Lin Peter H. Lin Thomas F. Lindsay Frank W. LoGerfo Joseph Vincent Lombardi Michel S. Makaroun Chris Marrocco Jon S. Matsumura James F. McKinsey Manish Mehta Matthew Thomas Menard David J. Minion Erica Leith Mitchell Marc E. Mitchell Tetsuro Miyata Wesley S. Moore Colleen Moore Patrick Muck Hans Olav Myhre A. Ross Naylor April Estelle Nedeau Peter Neglen Olle Per Nelzén
David G. Neschis Richard F. Neville Louis L. Nguyen Brian Nolan Lars Norgren Cassius Iyad Ochoa Chaar Gustavo S. Oderich Sean D. O’Donnell Kenneth Ouriel Christopher Owens C. Keith Ozaki Frank T. Padberg Jean M. Panneton Virendra I. Patel Tomas Pfeiffer George Theodore Pisimisis Lori Pounds Richard J. Powell Lingfeng Qin William J. Quinones-Baldrich Eberhard Rabe Seshadri Raju Joseph H. Rapp John E. Rectenwald Amy B. Reed Judith G. Regensteiner Thomas Reifsnyder Michael A. Ricci Joseph J. Ricotta II David Andrew Rigberg William P. Robinson Jean Marie Ruddy Daniel Rush Ulka Sachdev Richard J. Sanders Steven M. Santilli Rajabrata Sarkar Bhagwan Satiani Salvatore Scali Larry A. Scher Marc L. Schermerhorn Jurg Schmidli Claudio Schonholz Sherry D. Scovell Shoaib Shafique Alexander D. Shepard Jessica P. Simons Oren K. Steinmetz Scott L. Stevens Patrick A. Stone Michael Clinton Stoner Julianne Stoughton Bauer E. Sumpio David Szalay Guodong Tie Bryan Tillman Jan H. M. Tordoir Giovanni Torsello
JOURNAL OF VASCULAR SURGERY Volume 60, Number 6
Boulos Toursarkissian Paul S. van Bemmelen Hajo J. van Bockel J. Adam van der Vliet Ravi Kumar Veeraswamy Omaida C. Velazquez Hence J. M. Verhagen
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Eric Louis Gaston Verhoeven Todd R. Vogel Daniel B. Walsh Michael T. Watkins Rodney A. White Willem Wisselink Karen Woo
Edward Woo Mark C. Wyers Eleftherios S. Xenos Baohui Xu Jerry R. Youkey Paolo Zamboni R. Eugene Zierler
Bruce A. Perler, MD, MBA Senior Editor
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF REVIEWERS The Journal uses a rigorous peer-review process, in which each submitted manuscript is externally reviewed by at least three people, including at least one member of the Editorial Board, selected for their expertise in the particular topic that is the subject of the manuscript. The Editors then carefully consider these reviews. To review this large number of submitted manuscripts, in addition to our Editorial Board members, nearly 400 individuals participated as reviewers for the Journal during the past year. The Editors would like to acknowledge all of the reviewers who have contributed to this process during that time, and whose efforts are so critical to making the Journal the outstanding scientific publication that it has become. This is a voluntary effort performed by individuals during their personal time to advance the discipline of vascular surgery and endovascular therapy. The quality and effect of any scientific journal is primarily dependent on the quality of its peerreview process. We have been extremely impressed by the rigor and insightfulness of reviews performed for the Journal, which in many cases have substantially improved the quality of our published articles and therefore the overall quality of the Journal. The Editors express our sincerest thanks to all reviewers for their contributions this past year. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF ASSOCIATE AND ASSISTANT EDITORS We are very grateful for the contributions of our Associate Editors during this past year: Drs Thomas Brothers and Thomas Forbes, who serve as Clinical Studies Editors, and Dr Peter Henke who serves as the Basic Science Editor. Their efforts have ensured both the timeliness and quality of our review process, especially during this past year with the increased editorial workload, and they each have contributed significantly to the success and quality of the Journal. We also want to express our sincerest appreciation to our Assistant Editors, who have also participated in the editorial leadership of the Journal. They have helped solicit, select, and write content for various sections, including several new features introduced this year that have significantly broadened and enhanced the overall content and value of the Journal for our readership. We are especially grateful to Dr James Jones for his contributions as Editor of the Ethics Section, an extremely influential and popular feature of the Journal. We are also grateful for the leadership of Dr Gregory Moneta for his efforts as Editor of the Abstracts Section, Dr Richard Cambria for his management of the Review Article Section, and Dr Peter Lawrence, who has managed several special features, including Vascular & Endovascular Techniques, Practice Management, Clinical Trials Update, and Expert Debates. Special thanks also to Dr Norman Rich for his leadership in developing and managing our Historical Vignettes feature. We would also like to thank Dr Sean Roddy, who is responsible for the CPT Advisor’s Section, one of several features added to the Journal with the practicing vascular surgeon in mind. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE EDITORIAL BOARD Each manuscript received by the Editors is rated according to its quality, accuracy, insight, and helpfulness to the authors of the submission and to the Editors. Editorial Board members are selected on the basis of an objective evaluation of the quantity, quality, and timeliness of their peer reviews. Our goal is to include as many of our best reviewers as possible on the Editorial Board. Original manuscripts submitted to the Journal are reviewed by at least one member of the Editorial Board, who also submit Invited Commentaries and perform other duties for the Journal. During the past year, members of the Editorial Board each performed an average of 13 reviews and accounted for 29% of all the reviews that were done. The Editors would particularly like to recognize the following Editorial Board members who will be retiring from the Board after many years of valuable service and countless hours of unselfish work in this process. We would also like to welcome the new members of the Editorial Board, selected according to the process described above and who will begin in January. CONTINUING BOARD MEMBERS Ahmed M. Abou-Zamzam Ali F. AbuRahma Joseph P. Archie Zachary M. Arthurs Jan D. Blankensteijn Keith D. Calligaro William Darrin Clouse Mark Frederick Conrad Michael C. Dalsing Paul Joseph DiMuzio Magruder C. Donaldson Matthew J. Eagleton Eric David Endean Luke S. Erdoes
William R. Flinn Spencer Galt Linda Harris Thomas S. Huber Vikram S. Kashyap Timothy F. Kresowik Luis R. Leon Bo Liu William C. Mackey William A. Marston Robert A. McCready J. Gregory Modrall Thomas F. O’Donnell Patrick J. O’Hara Marc A. Passman William C. Pevec
Joseph D. Raffetto Timothy A. Resch Michael J. Rohrer Eva M. Rzucidlo Andres Schanzer Lewis B. Schwartz Cynthia K. Shortell Benjamin Ware Starnes R. James Valentine Thomas W. Wakefield RETIRING BOARD MEMBERS Hasan H. Dosluoglu Randolph L. Geary Glenn R. Jacobowitz
William D. Jordan Jeffrey L. Kaufman Gregory J. Landry Carlos H. Timaran Gerald S. Treiman
NEW BOARD MEMBERS Ruth L. Bush Alik Farber Mathew Longo George H. Meier Richard F. Neville Robert B. Patterson Fred A. Weaver Jonathan Weiswasser
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DISTINGUISHED REVIEWERS The Editors would also like to recognize a group of distinguished reviewers, who have performed more than six reviews for the Journal during the past year and who have consistently performed the highest-rated and timely reviews. These individuals have collectively contributed 45% of the total reviews. We are very grateful for their assistance and their outstanding contribution to the peer-review process.
Babak Abai Christopher J. Abularrage Mark Adelman James B. Alexander Niren Angle Joshua David Arnold Robert G. Atnip Martin R. Back Dennis F. Bandyk Neal R. Barshes Adam W. Beck Michael Belkin Daniel J. Bertges Jean Bismuth John Blebea Bruce J. Brener Ruth L. Bush Jacob Buth Jerry Chen Stephen W. K. Cheng Jae-Sung Cho Lori Choi Jayer Chung Timothy A. M. Chuter Anthony J. Comerota John D. Corson Alan Dardik R. Clement Darling Ellen Dillavou Maciej Lukasz Dryjski Luc Dubois James R. Elmore Guillermo A. Escobar Darwin Eton Alik Farber Katherine Ann Gallagher Nitin Garg
Robert P. Garvin Peter Gloviczki Randolph P. Guzman Raul J. Guzman John P. Harris Joseph Patrick Hart Dean A. Healy Norman R. Hertzer Jamal J. Hoballah Justin Hurie Karl A. Illig Jeffrey Indes Benjamin M. Jackson Steven G. Katz Lois A. Killewich Ted R. Kohler Ralf R. Kolvenbach Purandath Lall Michael P. Lilly Bengt Lindblad Evan C. Lipsitz G. Matthew Longo Ying Wei Lum Fedor Lurie Sean P. Lyden Thomas G. Lynch Robyn Macsata M. Ashraf Mansour Tara Marie Mastracci George H. Meier Joseph L. Mills Ross Milner Mark D. Morasch Nicholas Morrissey Albeir Mousa Firas Fuad Mussa
Stuart I. Myers Robert B. Patterson Mark A. Patterson Lakshmikumar Pillai Frank B. Pomposelli Janet T. Powell Adam Power Ravi R. Rajani Kathleen Raman Robert Young Rhee John J. Ricotta Jacob G. Robison Caron B. Rockman Hazim J. Safi Shawn Sarin Joseph R. Schneider Charles J. Shanley Michael J. Singh Niten Singh Matthew R. Smeds W. Charles Sternbergh III David H. Stone Scott M. Surowiec Gale Tang Robert W. Thompson Gilbert R. Upchurch Andre Van Rij Marc R. H. M. van Sambeek Juan Leonel Villavicencio Jean-Paul de Vries Eric Wahlberg Fred A. Weaver Jonathan Weiswasser John V. White Wei Zhou
REVIEWERS In addition, the Editors would like to recognize many other individuals who performed at least one review for the Journal during the past year. This includes several new reviewers. In nearly all cases, these reviews were excellent, and they collectively represented 26% of all reviews, emphasizing the importance of each individual reviewer to the peer-review process. We hope to expand the role of these reviewers in the future and are very grateful for their efforts this year.
Julie Adams Yves S. Alimi Rolf Apweiler Shipra Arya Marvin Douglas Atkins Faisal Aziz
Ali Azizzadeh Henry V. Baker Jeffrey L. Ballard B. Timothy Baxter Frederick P. Beavers Carlos Fares Bechara
Jean-Pierre Becquemin Scott A. Berceli Thomas M. Bergamini Ramon Berguer James Hamilton Black William Todd Bohannon
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Thomas C. Bower April Boyd Benjamin Sands Brooke Jan S. Brunkwall Richard P. Cambria Piergiorgio Cao Jeffrey P. Carpenter Neal Scott Cayne Rabih Antoine Chaer Philip Chan James G. Chandler Ankur Chandra Catherine Kyonga Chang Gregory Spicer Cherr Kenneth J. Cherry Daniel G. Clair Marc Coggia Dawn Marie Coleman Michael S. Conte Joseph S. Coselli Robert Crawford Enrique Criado David L. Cull John A. Curci Bruce S. Cutler Zhiyu Dai Ronald L. Dalman David L. Dawson Jonathan Scott Deitch Florian Dick Nicolas Diehm Yves-Marie Dion Nick Dobrilovic Matthew J. Dougherty Audra A. Duncan Jonothan J. Earnshaw Hans-Henning Eckstein Matthew S. Edwards John F. Eidt Jonathan Eliason Bruce M. Elliott Mohammad H. Eslami Ronald M. Fairman Robert J. Feezor Bram Fioole Thomas L. Forbes Julie A. Freischlag Chunhua Fu Paul J. Gagne Robert H. Geelkerken Hugh Gelabert Patrick J. Geraghty David L. Gillespie Mitchell H. Goldman Jerry Goldstone Philip P. Goodney Michael J. Gough Edwin C. Gravereaux
S. Marlene Grenon Naren Gupta Albert G. Hakaim John W. Hallett Allen David Hamdan Jaap Hamming E. John Harris Heitham T. Hassoun Jennifer Heller William R. Hiatt Anil Hingorani John R. Hoch Larry Horesh Mark D. Iafrati Daniel M. Ihnat Krassi Ivancev Takehisa Iwai Michael J. H. M. Jacobs William C. Jennings Juan Carlos Jimenez Jason M. Johanning Tilo Kölbel Lowell Stuart Kabnick Manju Kalra Karthikeshwar Kasirajan Melina R. Kibbe Mark Koelemay Larry W. Kraiss David N. Ku Nicos Labropoulos James Laredo Frank A. Lederle Jason T. Lee Byung-Boong Lee Timothy K. Liem Judith C. Lin Peter H. Lin Thomas F. Lindsay Frank W. LoGerfo Joseph Vincent Lombardi Michel S. Makaroun Chris Marrocco Jon S. Matsumura James F. McKinsey Manish Mehta Matthew Thomas Menard David J. Minion Erica Leith Mitchell Marc E. Mitchell Tetsuro Miyata Wesley S. Moore Colleen Moore Patrick Muck Hans Olav Myhre A. Ross Naylor April Estelle Nedeau Peter Neglen Olle Per Nelzén
David G. Neschis Richard F. Neville Louis L. Nguyen Brian Nolan Lars Norgren Cassius Iyad Ochoa Chaar Gustavo S. Oderich Sean D. O’Donnell Kenneth Ouriel Christopher Owens C. Keith Ozaki Frank T. Padberg Jean M. Panneton Virendra I. Patel Tomas Pfeiffer George Theodore Pisimisis Lori Pounds Richard J. Powell Lingfeng Qin William J. Quinones-Baldrich Eberhard Rabe Seshadri Raju Joseph H. Rapp John E. Rectenwald Amy B. Reed Judith G. Regensteiner Thomas Reifsnyder Michael A. Ricci Joseph J. Ricotta II David Andrew Rigberg William P. Robinson Jean Marie Ruddy Daniel Rush Ulka Sachdev Richard J. Sanders Steven M. Santilli Rajabrata Sarkar Bhagwan Satiani Salvatore Scali Larry A. Scher Marc L. Schermerhorn Jurg Schmidli Claudio Schonholz Sherry D. Scovell Shoaib Shafique Alexander D. Shepard Jessica P. Simons Oren K. Steinmetz Scott L. Stevens Patrick A. Stone Michael Clinton Stoner Julianne Stoughton Bauer E. Sumpio David Szalay Guodong Tie Bryan Tillman Jan H. M. Tordoir Giovanni Torsello
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Boulos Toursarkissian Paul S. van Bemmelen Hajo J. van Bockel J. Adam van der Vliet Ravi Kumar Veeraswamy Omaida C. Velazquez Hence J. M. Verhagen
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Eric Louis Gaston Verhoeven Todd R. Vogel Daniel B. Walsh Michael T. Watkins Rodney A. White Willem Wisselink Karen Woo
Edward Woo Mark C. Wyers Eleftherios S. Xenos Baohui Xu Jerry R. Youkey Paolo Zamboni R. Eugene Zierler
