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 2023. 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

Nikki Allorto

Edina Amponsah-Dacosta

Andrew Argent

Zunaid Barday

Peter Barron

Zaheer Bayat

Rajendra Bhimma

Marc Blockman

Susan Botha

Martin Brand

Liam Brannigan

Michelle Butler

Eboneé N Butler

Michelle Casey

Deoraj Caussy

Martha Chadyiwa

Tendesayi Chakezha

Marius Coetzee

Marius Coetzee

Werner Cordier

Ziyaad Dangor

Halima Dawood

Siobhan de Lange

Tim De Maayer

Alex Devoux

Nina Diana

Magritha Du Bruyn

Tinus du Toit

Moleen Dzikiti

Fahmida Essop

June Fabian

Sue Fawcus

Ernst Fredericks

Natasha Gloeck

Rajeshree Govender

Komalan Govender

Sally J Guttmacher-Holtzman

Stanley Gwayuva

Clint Hendrikse

Bridget Hodkinson

Onyeka V Ilorah

Sibi Joseph

David Kettles

Aabida Khan

Rene Krause

Carl-Heinz Kruze

Siphokazi Kwatubana

Anthony Kwaw

Saad Lahri

Neo Ledibane

Richard Lessells

Michelle Lowe

Mogammad I Majiet

Prisilla Makunyane

Farouk Mamdoo

Patience Manjengwa

Relebogile Mapuroma

Solani David Mathebula

Neil H McKerrow

Sthembiso Mhlanga

Alexia S Michaelides

Steve Moeng

Farzahna Mohamed

Masego Moncho

Benny Mosoane

Maureen Moyo-Chilufya

Amos Msekandiana

Isabelle Munyangaju

Wellington Mushayi

Poobalan Naidoo

Prineetha Naidoo

Firdose Nakwa

Lizeka Napoles

Pradeep Navsaria

Sanele Ngcobo

Nqobile Ngoma

Francis Ooko

Stefan Opperman

Sean Patrick

Brian Rayner

Rubina Razack

Paul Rheeder

Lesley Robertson

Ernesto Rosales Gonzalez

Prabash Sadhai

Jacobus De Wet Scheepers

Gail Scher

Helen Schneider

Yonatan Eliezer Segal

Patricia Silinda

Abraham Simatupang

Wayne Simmonds

Thozama Siyotula

Melodie Slabbert

Willem Stassen

Jantjie Taljaard

Gerhard Theron

David Thomson

Joseph Titus

Astrid Turner

Veronica Ueckermann

Sophy van der Berg-Cloete

Pieter van der Bijl

Ronald van Toorn

Johannes van Waart

Willem D F Venter

Neville Vlok

Klaus von Pressentin

Ruan Vosloo

Alisha Wade

Priya Walabh

Tim Walker

Blessing Wazara

Amy Wise

Elizabeth Wolvaardt

Marco Zampoli

Nadirah Goolam

 

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 2023. This is much appreciated, particularly in the face of increasingly heavy clinical and teaching loads.

Autoimmune encephalitis

Guest editors

J Hiesgen, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa

C M Schutte, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Authors

J Hiesgen, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa

C M Schutte, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Approach to the diagnosis and management of snakebite envenomation in South Africa in humans Guest editor

T Hardcastle, Trauma and Burns Service, Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital (IALCH) and KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health; Department of Surgical Sciences, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu- Natal; National Snakebite Advisory Group, Durban, South Africa

Authors

T C Hardcastle, Trauma and Burns Service, Inkosi Albert Luthuli Central Hospital and KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health, South Africa; Department of Surgical Sciences, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa; National Snakebite Advisory Group, Durban, South Africa

M Kajee, South African Snakebite Symposium Organising Committee, Gauteng, South Africa

K Lachenicht, Rocket Helicopter Emergency Services, Germiston, South Africa

N van der Walt, Access Professional Development, Vereeniging, South Africa

A Engelbrecht, National Snakebite Advisory Group, Durban, South Africa; Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa

V Lalloo, National Snakebite Advisory Group, Durban, South Africa; Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa

C Bell, National Snakebite Advisory Group, Durban, South Africa; Mosvold Hospital, KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health, and Department of Family Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

M Toubkin, National Snakebite Advisory Group, Durban, South Africa; Netcare Emergency, Trauma and Transplant, Netcare Head Office, Johannesburg, South Africa

F Motara, Department of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa