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 2020. 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.

Zeelha Abdool

Harold Annegam

Andrew Argent

Daynia Ballot

Colleen Bamford

Tinus Basson

Zaheer Bayat

Kevin Behrens

Astrid Berg

Dhaneshwar Bhagwandass

Suhayfa Bhamjee

Rajendra Bhimma

Samantha Bhudram

Damon Basil Bizoz

Craig Blake

Marc Blockman

Dirk Blom

Lucille Blumberg

Martin Botha

Martin Brand

Zameer Brey

Isabel Brouwer

Theresa Burgess

Heloise Buys

Michael Campbell

Farzana Cassim

Damian Luiz Clarke

Francesca Conradie

Peter Cooper

Mark Cotton

Michael Danckwerts

Halima Dawood

Alan Davidson

Rik De Decker

Ingo de Muelenaere

Francois de Villiers

Eric Decloedt

Ames Dhai

Thembekile Dhlamini

Robert Dyer

Lilian Dudley

Harriet Etheridge

Lee Fairlie

Zane Farina

Nando Ferreira

Ute Feucht

Pierre Foex

Sasha Frade

Jennifer Furin

Rhada Glhwala

Jacqueline Goedals

Andrew Lofts Gray

Robin Green

Freedom Gumedze

Sally J Guttmacher-Holtzman

Timothy Hardcastle

Peter Hodkinson

Sally Hopewell

Gillian Hunt

Eduard Jonas

Munira Khan

Noeleen Kinsley

Wayen Kleintjes

Hyla Kluyts

Tamara Kredo

Pradeep Kumar

Melodie Labuschaigne

Leslie London

Safia Mahomed

Bonnie Maloba

Relebogile Mapuroma

Robert Mash

Iqbal Master

David McQuoid-Mason

Marc Mendelsohn

John Meyers

Peter Millard

Jacqui Miot

Steve Moeng

Palesa Mogane

Jack Moodley

Keymanthri Moodley

Muhammad Moolla

Michelle Moorhouse

Harry Moultrie

Hannes Mouton

Nokukhanya Msomi

Shingai Mutambirwa

Nisha Naicker

Shan Naidoo

Pradeep Navsaria

Duduzile Ndwandwe

Mthunzi Ngcelwane

Lungiswa Nkonki

Lamla Nqwata

Talwo Obembe

Sharon Officer

Krijn Paaijmans

Masudah Paleker

Andrew Palk

Moosa Patel

Robert Pattinson

Olga Perovic

Taryn Pillay

Wolfgang Preiser

Kaveer Ramchandre

Shreya Rayamajhi

Che Reddy

Anthony Reed

Helmuth Reuter

Guy Richards

Laetitia Rispel

Anastasia Rossouw

Theresa Rossouw

Simon Schaaf

Michael Pepper

Jerome Singh

Parun Singh

Usha Singh

David Skinner

Magda Slabbert

Willem Stassen

Elmin Steyn

NomaKhuwa Tabane

Andrew Tagg

Jantjie Taljaard

John Tarpley

Gerhard Theron

Olga Toth

Edward Turton

Bart van den Borne

Daniël van Hoving

Johannes van Waart

Richard van Zyl-Smit

Lisa Vetten

Jaco Viljoen

Klaus von Pressentin

Lize Weich

Mike Wells

Virginia Zweigenthal

 

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 2020. This is much appreciated, particularly in the face of increasingly heavy clinical and teaching loads.

Thrombotic disorders

Guest editors

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

Authors

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

B Jacobson, Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; and National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

S Louw, Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; and National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

E Schapkaitz, Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; and National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

J Vaughan, Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; and National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

Managing and preventing childhood pneumonia in South Africa: Updated South African guidelines

Guest editors

H J Zar, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town; and South African Medical Research Council Unit on Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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

S A Madhi, South African Medical Research Council Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Analytics Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; and Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: South African Research Chair in Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Authors

H J Zar, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town; and South African Medical Research Council Unit on Child and Adolescent Health, University of Cape Town, South Africa

D P Moore, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

S Andronikou, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; and Department of Pediatric Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, USA

A C Argent, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

T Avenant, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, South Africa

C Cohen, Centre for Respiratory Diseases and Meningitis, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

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

G Itzikowitz, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

P Jeena, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

M P Nicol, Division of Medical Microbiology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa; and Division of Infection and Immunity, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia

A Pillay, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

G Reubenson, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Rahima Moosa Mother and Child Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

R Masekela, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Nelson R Mandela School of Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

S A Madhi, South African Medical Research Council Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Analytics Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; and Department of Science and Technology/National Research Foundation: South African Research Chair in Vaccine Preventable Diseases, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Bridget Farham

Editor

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