High-quality peer reviewers are absolutely essential to the success of any scientific journal, and JAANP is no exception. I cannot express enough gratitude to those who have given their time and talents to keeping our journal one that health care providers from every discipline seek out as a trusted and esteemed destination for their scientific writing. It is the peer reviewer who points out flaws in thinking, research design, and writing in a thoughtful and helpful way, and in doing so builds a better writer. It is writers who switch chairs and volunteer as reviewers who become even better writers. If you are currently a reviewer, thank you. If you are not, please contact me. A free course is available to help you get started. The reviewers listed at the end of this column served the JAANP in 2019 and made a meaningful contribution to the quality of our journal.
Last month, I promised our readers that in 2020, the Year of the Nurse and Midwife, we would include a highlight of an occurrence in nursing history during each month of the year. This month we celebrate the birthday of Mary Carson Breckinridge, an American nurse and midwife who founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS). Breckinridge was born on February 17, 1881, in Memphis, Tennessee. She attended St. Luke's Hospital School of Nursing in New York, graduating in 1910. She took graduate courses in public health at Teachers College, Columbia University, and traveled to London to earn a midwifery certificate. Her focus became the care of the poor, especially babies. In 1925, she organized the Kentucky Committee for Mothers and Babies, later renamed the FNS. The members of the FNS formed the organization that became the American Association of Nurse-Midwives. Like many highly educated nurse clinicians of her day, she was clearly an advanced practice nurse before the term was coined. Her life and achievements are far too numerous to list here. Readers are encouraged to read one of the many works detailing the life and career of this inspiring leader (Frontier Nursing University, 2018; Goan, 2008; National Women's Hall of Fame, 2020).
2019 Peer Reviewers
Phyllis Adams
Julie Adkins
Patricia Alpert
Karen Amirehsani
Colleen Andreoni
Anthony Angelow
Angelina Anthamatten
Robin Arends
Mary Aruda
Cathy Arvidson
Kahla Atherton
Agnes Austero
Elizabeth Babler-Schrader
Yasmin Bahar
Pamela Bahler
Kathy Baldridge
Nancy Balkon
Elizabeth Barker
Theresa Bedford
Bobby Bellflower
Ramona Benkert
Judith Berg
Mary Ellen Biggerstaff
James Blackwell
Kathryn Blair
Denise Bockwoldt
Miriam Boeri
Elizabeth Bonham
Amy Booth
Margaret Bowers
Melinda Brand
Kevin Brunacini
Geraldine Budd
Cassondra Burks
Lindsay Burner
Charles Buscemi
Lisa Byrd
Luis Cabret Rios
Carlin Callaway
Susan Calloway
Beth Cameron
Theresa Campo
Carmen Cardinale
Amy Carney
Dawn Carpenter
Michael Carter
Essence Carter Griffin
Kelly Casler
Doreen Cassarino
Jane Champion
Susan Chaney
Amanda Chaney
Leon Chen
Tanya Chervoni-Knapp
Sharon Chow
Lola Coke
Cathy Cole
Michelle Cook
Constance Creech
Summer Cross
Mary D'Amico
Theresa Damien
Shelly de Peralta
Kelly DeFeo
Beth DeKoninck
Kate Dell
M. Elayne DeSimone
Shirley Dinkel
Nancy Dirubbo
Katherine Dontje
Dian Dowling Evans
Janet DuBois
Jayne Dunlap
Gayle Early
Lacey Eden
Emily Eiswirth
Jeanne Enstrom
Peg Esper
Krista Estes
Heidi Fantasia
Dwight Faught
Laurie Anne Ferguson
Monica Flowers
Jeannie Giese
Jennifer Goldsberry
Elizabeth Gonzales
Mary Goolsby
Beth Grabiak
Jennifer Hackel
Gerri Hagadon-Szakal
Debra Hain
Lauren Haines
Beth Haney
Dixie Harms
Nena Harris
Leigh Hart
Peg Hartig
Laura Hendren
Rodney Hicks
Christine Hudak
Christina Hurlock-Chorostecki
Seja Jackson
Lisa Jackson
Brian Jefferson
Monique Jenkins
Vanessa Kalis
Annemarie Kallenbach
Karen Kalmakis
Louise Kaplan
Linda Keilman
Patricia Kelley
Vicki Keough
Rose Knapp
Elizabeth Kostas-Polston
Elizabeth Kuzma
Cynthia Langford
Ellen Latour
Gary Laustsen
Colleen Leners
Catherine Ling
Bonnie Lioce
Sharon Little
Lucretia Long
Karen Luken
Justine Maedeker Smith
Diane Mahoney
Amy McCarron
Shannon McCrory-Churchill
M. Allen McCullough
Sheila Melander
Deborah Messecar
Lisa Moment
Diane Monsivais
Joy Monsma
Paula Morrow
Geoffrey Mospan
Ann O'Sullivan
Kim Oas
Olasunmbo Okedele
Jeni Page
Patricia Pearce
Catherine Pearsall
Polly Petersen
Bunny Pounds
Mary Powell
Renee Pozza
Rachel Prosser
Elizabeth Rash
Briana Rehn
Susan Renda
Luann Richardson
Maryellen Roberts
Jo Robins
Amanda Roesch
Susan Ruppert
Frances Sahebzamani
Prabjot Sandhu
Lorna Schumann
Erica Sciarra
Aaron Sebach
Diane Seibert
Barbara Sheer
Anna Short
Jessica Simmons
Trickera Sims
Antiqua Smart
Deirdre Smith
Audrey Snyder
Suzanne Staebler
Michele Talley
Leslie Faith Taub
Paulette Thabault
Sophia Thomas
Anne Thomas
Angela Thompson
Susan Tiso
Nancy Turnham
Teresa Valerio
Donna Velasquez
Kimberly Walker-Daniels
Justin Waryold
Sharon Weyer
Kathy Wheeler
Tammy Whitehead
Amanda Whymer
Irene Woods Bean
Stephanie Wynn
Terri Yost
Phyllis Zimmer
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