Now in its fourth year, the Reviewer of the Year award is announced annually to recognize an outstanding peer reviewer for The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. From its inception, the Editorial Board felt highlighting a winner in each of the three main disciplines—Adult Cardiac, General Thoracic, and Congenital Heart Surgery—was warranted, as well as highlighting one trainee/resident award winner. As of this year, we have expanded to include a winner in the field of Perioperative/Critical Care.
In recognition of those who consistently provided a combination of high-quality, thorough, and professional reviews in a timely manner, The Annals named the following outstanding recipients for 2023:
General Thoracic:
J.W. Awori Hayanga, MD, MPH, FRCS
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
Adult Cardiac:
J. Hunter Mehaffey, MD, MSc
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV
Congenital:
Pravana Sinha, MD
University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital
Minneapolis, MN
Trainee:
Hannah L. McMullen, MD
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA
Reviewing for The Annals is at once an act of generosity, a responsibility, as well as a privilege, and this year’s winners highlight the tremendous support we receive from our peers in the cardiothoracic surgical community. This important work helps our authors do better studies and write better papers, and we celebrate their efforts in safeguarding the quality and integrity of scholarly communication through peer review. We are thankful for their contributions to our scientific field.
If you wish to become further engaged in peer reviewing for The Annals, please join our “Reviewer Volunteer” program, and our Senior Editors will be able to recognize your interest when they are handling manuscripts that may be applicable to your areas of expertise. For more information on Annals’ “Reviewer Volunteer” program and to express your interest in joining, please contact theannals@sts.org.
Additionally, Elsevier now supports a Volunteer to Review opportunity through Reviewer Hub, which upon registration allows researchers to indicate their interest in reviewing for any Elsevier title, including The Annals. With this new feature linked to a user’s Scopus and Reviewer Hub profile, editors can search for and select these candidate reviewers seamlessly within our internal peer review system.
General Thoracic
Jeffrey B. Velotta, MD
Kaiser Permanente Oakland Medical Center
Oakland, CA
Adult Cardiac
Moritz C. Wyler von Ballmoos, MD
Texas Health Fort Worth
Fort Worth, TX
Congenital
Karthik V. Ramakrishnan, MD
Le Bonheur Children's Hospital
Memphis, TN
Perioperative/Critical Care
Michael C. Grant, MD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Trainee
M. Mujeeb Zubair, MD
University of Michigan Medical Center
Ann Arbor, MI
General Thoracic
Alejandro Bribriesco, MD
Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Adult Cardiac
Heidi J. Reich, MD
Central California Heart and Lung Surgery
Fresno, CA
Congenital
Nishant Saran, MBBS
Mayo Clinic Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI
Trainee
Alejandro Suarez-Pierre, MD
University of Colorado
Aurora, CO
Trainee
Makoto Hibino, MD, MPH, PhD
St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada
Adult Cardiac
Masashi Kawabori, MD
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, MA
General Thoracic
Olugbenga T. Okusanya, MD
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA
Adult Cardiac
Fawwaz R. Shaw, MD
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA
General Thoracic
Chadrick E. Denlinger, MD
Indiana University School of Medicine
Indianapolis, IN
Trainee
Kathryn E. Engelhardt, MD, MS
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
Congenital
Tracy R. Geoffrion, MD, MPH
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Adult Cardiac
Danny Ramzy, MD, PhD
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, CA