The Eastern Mediterranean health journal thanks the following experts for their kind assistance in the review of papers considered for publication during the year 2004.

Professor Hilmy Abaza

Professor Mohamed Abdel Rahman

Dr Fardous Hanem Abdel-Aal

Professor M. Abdel-Moneim Abdel-Aal

Professor Said Abdel-Azim

Dr Mohammad Adur Rab

Professor Mona A. Abdel-Mesieh

Professor M. Yosry Abdel-Mohsen

Professor Ekram Abdel-Salam

Professor Kilany Aly Abdel Salam

Professor Sameh Abdel-Shakour

Dr Yousef Abdulrazzaq

Professor Mostafa A. Abolfotouh

Dr Assem Anwar Kotb Abou-Arab

Professor Hala Abou Senna

Dr Houssain Abouzaid

Professor Mohamed Reda Mohamed Abu El-Maati

Professor Ahmed Awad Abdel-Hameed Adeel

Professor Adel Mohamed Afifi

Professor Maha Sadek Ahmad

Dr Ahmed Abdulla Ahmed

Professor Kamel Ajlouni

Dr Tasleem Akhtar

Dr Lubna A. Al-Ansary

Ms Deena Alasfoor

Dr Salah Al Awaidy

Professor Zohair Ahmed Al-Sebai

Dr Najeeb Al Shorbaji

Dr Abdullah Mohammed Al-Bedah

Dr Nabil Al-Beiruti

Dr Tarek Al-Dosoky

Professor Abdulrahman S. Al-Frayh

Dr Tariq Al-Habeeb

Dr Nasser Al-Haddad

Professor Mohamed Khalil Habib

Al-Haddad

Dr Hazem Al-Khawashki

Dr Sulaiman Mohammed Al-Mayouf

Mrs Batool Ali Al-Muhandis

Professor Faisal Abdul Latif Alnasir

Professor Khaldoun Al-Roomi

Dr Qasim Mohamad Al-Shboul

Professor Abdulrahman Al Tahan

Professor Mahi Al-Tehewy

Professor Fatma Abdelaziz Amer

Professor Naila Hassan Amer

Professor Ezzat Khamis Amine

Dr Walid Ammar

Dr Yaser Aly Ahmed Ammar

Professor Medhat Yehia Mohamed Anwar

Professor Morsi Mohamed Arab

Dr Mostafa Ahmed Arafa

Dr Abdul Ghani Arafeh

Dr Said Arnaout

Professor Abdel Moneim Ashour

Mr Sadok Atallah

Dr Hoda Atta

Professor Osama Awad

Professor Helen Nashed Awadalla

Dr Sami Azar

Professor Taha Baasher

Professor Mohamed Ramadan Baddar

Dr Samiha Baghdadi

Dr Ahmed Abdulatief Ahmed Bahnassy

Professor Rashad Sami Barsoum

Dr Hyam Bashour

Professor Hassan Kamel Bassiouny

Professor Anwar Batieha

Dr Saleh A.O. Bawazir

Professor Ramez Bedwani

Professor Hassan Bella

Dr Riyadh Ben-Ismail

Dr Hasan Bhutta

Professor Laila Maurice Boulos

Professor Denis M. Bourgeois

Professor Nilufer Rached Chafik

Dr Carlo Chizzolini

Professor Kian Fan Chung

Dr Filippo Curtale

Professor Fazal Karim Dar

Professor Adekunle Dawodu

Dr Mercedes de Onis

Dr Assim Derweesh

Dr Bassel Doughan

Professor Gholam Hossein Edrissian

Professeur Rajae El-Aouad

Professor Omar El-Ahmady

Professor Mohamed Farid El-Asmer

Dr Fatima El Awa

Professor Omar El Farouk El Azzouni

Professor Mohamed Abbas El Barrawy

Professor Mohamed El Deeb

Professor Magdy El Guinaidy

Professor Dawlat El Miligy

Professor Adel El-Beheiry

Professor Amal Mohamed El-Beshlawy

Professor Hatem El-Beyali

Professor Ezzeddin Saeed Mohammad El-Denshary

Dr Ahmed Rajai El-Gendy

Professor Ibrahim Sadek El-Gendy

Professor Ebtisam Fathi El-Ghazzawi

Dr Amina El-Ghamry

Professor Zenab El-Gothamy

Professor Zoheir Hassan El-Hoshy

Professor Mohamed Hassan El-Hoshy

Dr Mohamed Beshir El-Kateb

Dr Mohammed El-Khateeb

Dr Abd El-Rahman El-Naggar

Professor Mervat El-Rafie

Dr Mohammed Tawfiq El Rakhawi

Professor Amal M.S. El-Ridy

Professor Yassin Mohamed El-Sadek

Professor Ahmad Elsadr

Professor Fikrat Ahmed Fouad El-Sahn

Professor Mustafa Aly El-Sayed

Professor Hamdy Mahmoud El-Sayed

Professor Nawal Abdel Rehim El-Sayed

Professor Tarek Mostafa Mohamed

El-Sharkawy

Professor Fawzi El-Shobaki

Professor Hanem Mohamed El-Tahan

Dr Mohamed Ali Mohamed El-Torky

Professor Ahmed Gasim Elzubier

Dr Jérôme Etienne

Professor Omar Farag

Professor Hoda Fahmy Farag

Professor Taghreed Farahat

Professor Shadley Fataar

Dr Bahaa El-Din Abdel Hamid Fateha

Professor Mahmoud Fahmy Fathalla

Professor Ahmed Amin Fetouh

Dr Kamel Heshmat Gado

Professor Salma Badr El-Din Galal

Professor Hans Gerber

Professor Abbas Ghaderi

Professor Wagdi Rezk Ghali

Professor Cheherezade Ghazi

Dr Yassin A.A. Ginawi

Professor Mohamed Mokhtar M. Gomaa

Dr Gamal Gordon

Dr Bulent Gorenek

Dr Ghada Hafez

Dr Rana A. Hajjeh

Dr Zoheir Hallaj

Professor Bashir Hamad

Dr Randah Ribhi Hamadeh

Professor Hossam Hamdy

Professor Hammam Mohammed Hammam

Professor Nibal Ahmad Hamoda

Dr Ralph E. Harbach

Professor Hoda Abd El-Fattah Hassan

Professor Ezzeldin Osman Hassan

Professor Mohsen M. Hassan

Professor Salwa Al-Saied M. Hassanyn

Dr Mohammed Hayaty

Professor Samia Abdel Razzak Hemeda

Dr Seyed Mehran Hosseini

Dr Mohamed Sayed Hussein

Professor Mohamed Amr Hussein

Professor Nahla Chawkat Hwalla

Dr Mohammed Fakhry Abdulmohsen

Ibrahim

Professor Kameel Girgis Iskander

Dr John Jabbour

Dr Abdul Halim Jokhadar

Professor Abdo Jurjus

Professor Samir Mohamed Kabil

Professor Mohamed Faisal Kamal

Professor Mahmoud Raafat Kandil

Professor Medhat Khafagy

Professor Aly Elyan Khalafalla

Professor Nawal Mohamed Khalafallah

Professor Refaat Mohamed Ahmed Khalifa

Professor Fawzy Megahed Khalil

Professor Hamed Mahmoud Khalil

Professor Mohammed Hussein M. Khalil

Professor Omar Khashab

Dr Zahra Khatami

Professor Adel Khattab

Professor Mohamed Taky El Din Khayyal

Dr Tawfik Khoja

Professor Nabil Kronfol

Dr Wesam I. Kurdi

Professor Taha Mohamed Abdel Moniem Labib

Professor Fethi Maatouk

Professor Ahmed Madkour

Professor Mokhtar Taha Madkour

Dr Ramez Mahaini

Dr Sawsan Majali Mahasneh

Professor Ahmed Abdel Rahman Mahfouz

Professor Maghazy Ali Mahgoub

Professor Fathy Abdel Hamied Maklady

Professor Ahmed Mohamed Mandour

Professor Mona Kamal Marei

Professor Afaf Mohamed Aly Massoud

Professor Aly Abdel Hady Massoud

Professor Osama Gamal El-Din Massoud

Dr Shirley McLevenny

Dr Nabila Metwalli

Dr Abraham Mnzava

Professor Mostafa K. Mohamed

Professor Ali Monis

Dr Khairya Moosa

Professor Tosson Aly Morsy

Professor Adel Moussa

Dr Wafaa Moussa

Professor Asim Farouk Mustafa

Professor Mohamed M. Nassar

Professor Nabil T. Nassar

Professor Shafika Nasser

Professor Mona A.B. Nayel

Professor Stephen Abimbola Odusanya

Professor Ahmed Mahmoud Fahmy

Okasha

Professor Tarek Ahmed Okasha

Professor Sherif Omar

Dr Salah-Eddine Ottmani

Dr Pinar Tevfik Ozand

Dr David Payne

Professor Hashem Mohamed Rashwan

Professor Mohamed Atef Refaat

Dr Mark Rowland

Professor Hamid Rushwan

Dr Munir Saadeddin

Professor Yasser Saad-Eldin

Professor Sherif Sabry

Professor Ali Ahmed Ali Sadek

Dr Khalid Saeed

Professor Mohamed Sami Abdel-Hamid Said

Dr Mahmoud F. Sakr

Professor Hosny Mohamed Salama

Dr Osama Eisa Salama

Dr Abdel Aziz Saleh

Professor Samira Saleh

Professor Abdel-Wahab Samaha

Professor Mohamed Walid Sankari

Dr Saqer Salem Al Salem Saqer

Dr Kassem Sara

Professor Sanaa Mahmoud Sayed

Dr Akihiro Seita

Professor Gamal Serour

Dr Mostafa Shafik

Dr Uzma Shah

Professor Mounir Shalaby

Professor Samia Abed El Fattah Sharaf

Dr Abdel Fattah Shawki

Professor Rabah M. Shawky

Dr Sherine Shawky

Professor Asem Shehabi

Professor Medhat Hassan Shehata

Professor Youssef M. Sheta

Professor Attaf Shible

Dr Sameen Siddiqi

Dr Felicity Smith

Professor Mohamed Moselhi Soliman

Dr Adrian David Stephens

Professor Ramzy Tadros

Professor Soliman Azmy Tahoon

Professor Ahmed Tantawy

Dr Afaf Abd El Fattah Tawfik

Ms Lilas Tomeh

Professor Mokhtar Khairy Toppozada

Dr Haysam Tufenkeji

Ms Joanna Jessie Vogel

Professor Walther Helmut Wernsdorfer

Dr Mirghani A. Rahman Yousif

Professor Salwa Mohamed Youssef

Dr Salah Rafik Abbas Zaher

Dr Anita Zaidi

Dr Adel Zaki

Professor Ahmad Zaki