FROM THE EDITOR

 

Thank you from SAMA and the editors

 

 

The SAMJ reviewers

SAMA and the editors of SAMJ would like to thank all who participated in the peer review process during 2021. We are grateful for the expertise, insight and thoughtful critiques shared with our authors through the review process, and without which maintaining the high standard of our journal would be impossible.

We apologise if any individual reviewer has inadvertently been excluded, and to those reviewers who were recruited after this issue was published.

Sumaiya Adam

Yahya Atiya

Olalekan A Ayo-Yusuf

Kamaldeen Baba

Colleen Bamford

Avania Bangalee

Peter Barron

Zaheer Bayat

Craig Blake

Mark Blecher

Marc Blockman

Eularnia Blok

Dirk Blom

Lucille Blumberg

Ifongo Bombil

Martin Brand

Gregory Calligaro

Jonathan Carr

Damian Luiz Clarke

Maria E Cochrane

Joel A Dave

Rik De Decker

Eric Decloedt

Bronwyn Dillon

Angela Dramowski

Riëtte du Toit

Lilian Dudley

Geoffrey Dusheiko

Tafadzwa Dzinamarira

Abdul Kader Ebrahim

Fantu Eyowas

June Fabian

Charles Feldman

Gerardo Ferrara

Nando Ferreira

Pierre Foex

John Frean

Bernhard Gaede

Premjth Gathiram

Charles Gaunt

Ayanda Gcelu

Ameena Goga

Bhaskar Goolab

Christoffel Grobler

Sally J Guttmacher-Holtzman

Diana R Hardie

Derek Harrison

Michael Hendricks

Stefan Hofmeyr

Ebrahim Hoosien

Luke Hunter

Charlotte Ingram

Elvis Irusen

Abdul Isaacs

Lizelle Jacobs

Barry F Jacobson

Khadija Jamaloodien

Jacobus D Jordaan

Dvora L Joseph Davey

Emma Kalk

Kenneth Kapembwa

Leolin Katsidzira

Sharon Kling

Michael J Klipin

Olivier Koole

Carla Kotze

René Krause

Sanjay G Lala

Marcelle le Roux

Rannakoe J Lehloenya

Jonathan B Levin

Jan Lotz

Vernon Louw

Azwidowi Lukhwareni

Zeyn Mahomed

Moffat Malisheni

Bonnie Maloba

Relebogile Mapuroma

Adrian D Marais

Felistas Mashinya

Christopher Mathew

Simnikiwe Mayaphi

Neil H McKerrow

Shaheen Mehtar

Graeme Meintjes

Andrea Mendelsohn

Marc Mendelsohn

Marc Merven

Malcolm Miller

Steve Moeng

Zainab Mohamed

Anders Moller

Muhammad Moola

Neetha S Morar

Atiya Mosam

Benny Mosoane

Khanyi Msomi

Mergan Naidoo

Firdose Nakwa

Jeremy Nel

Jessica Opie

Graham Paget

Remco Peters

Wolfgang Preiser

Jan-Loot Pretorius

Aberto Puddu

Kaveer Ramchandre

Brian Rayner

Helmuth Reuter

Guy Richards

Jennifer Rickard

Andrew Ross

Mike Sathegekge

Erica Shaddock

Mncegeli Sibanda

David Simon

Parun Singh

John P Skibiak

Priya Soma-Pillay

Harsha Somaroo

Maryke Spruyt

Warren G Stilwaney

Jantjie Taljaard

Gerhard Theron

Sandie R Thomson

Helena B Thornton

Brent Tipping

Mpho Tladi

Florette Treunicht

Nqoba Tsitsi

Veronica Ueckermann

Helena van Aswegen

Karin van den Berg

Mboyo Di T Vangu

Michelle Venter

Willem D F Venter

Jaco Viljoen

Neville Vlok

Tim Walker

Megan Wellbeloved

Anthony T Westwood

Margaret Williams

Michelle Wong

 

The CME guest editors and authors

As editor of CME and SAMJ, I would like to thank all the guest editors and authors for their truly outstanding contributions to CME during 2021. This is much appreciated, particularly in the face of increasingly heavy clinical and teaching loads.

Asthma in South African children Guest editors

R J Green, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa

M E Levin, Division of Paediatric Allergy, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

A I Manjra, Allergy and Asthma Centre, Westville Hospital, Durban, South Africa

H J Zar, MRC Unit on Child and Adolescent Health, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Authors

A I Manjra, Allergy and Asthma Centre, Westville Hospital, Durban, South Africa

R J Green, on behalf of the South African Childhood Asthma Working Group (SACAWG), Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa

P Goussard, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, and Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

S Kling, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

F E Kritzinger, Netcare Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

M E Levin, Division of Paediatric Allergy, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

R Masekela, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

S M Risenga, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Limpopo, and Pietersburg Hospital, South Africa

A van Niekerk, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, and Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa

D A White, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, and Charlotte

Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, South Africa

H J Zar, MRC Unit on Child and Adolescent Health, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Thalassaemia

Guest editors

N A Alli, Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand and National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

Y Goga, Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

J Poole, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand and Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa

Authors

N A Alli, Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand and National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

F Bassa, Division of Clinical Haematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tygerberg Academic Hospital and Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

F Fazel, Blood Centre, Rondebosch Medical Centre, Cape Town, South Africa

N Novitzky, Division of Clinical Haematology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tygerberg Academic Hospital and Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Y Goga, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal and Inkosi

Albert Luthuli Central Hospital, Durban, South Africa

A Krause, Division of Human Genetics, National Health Laboratory Service and School of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

S Parasnath, Department of Clinical Haematology, Inkosi Albert

Luthuli Central Hospital and Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

M Patel, Department of Medicine, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

J Poole, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Paediatric Haematology/Oncology Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand and Charlotte Maxeke Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa

 

Nephrolithiasis

Guest editors and authors

A M Meyers, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

S Naicker, National Kidney Foundation of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

Bridget Farham

Editor

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