The editorial office of the Annals of Biomedical Engineering, the flagship journal of the Biomedical Engineering Society, wishes to express its gratitude to all our reviewers and editors for their hard work in 2012. Our editorial team reviewed a total of 837 manuscripts, with an average turnaround time of 17.3 days from the date of submission. Let us be reminded that we are all volunteers, and we offer this work to our scientific community and our Society because of our love for our profession. This work is our contribution toward improving our journal to the top of scientific publications.

All reviewers and editors contributed to our journal’s excellence last year. In particular, we would like to honor those who went above and beyond the call of duty. As a token of our appreciation, we presented each with a special certificate and we are also including their names below:

Reviewers

Top Reviewer

Cameron R. Bass, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Reviewer Excellence

Frank Winterroth, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Jay Humphrey, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Michael S. Sacks, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA

T. Christian Gasser, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

Associate Editors

Editorial Excellence

Kent Leach, University of California, Davis, CA, USA

Scott Diamond, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Outstanding Special Issue

Michael L. Shuler, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Jong Hwan Sung, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea

As our journal has been steadily improving in all its metrics, I will take this opportunity to thank all of our readers, authors, reviewers, and editors for your hard work which is bearing fruit.

K. A. Athanasiou

Editor-in-Chief

University of California, Davis

Electronic mail: athanasiou@ucdavis.edu