This award was launched to acknowledge exceptional peer reviewers. Shervin Assari, M.D., was recently recognized as one of the "Star Peer Reviewers of 2017" on the basis of his exceptional peer reviews over the last calendar year. He was nominated by Dr. Cato Laurencin, Editor in Chief, and deputy editors of the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, from a pool of over a thousand peer reviewers.
In this article, Dr. Assari explains how being a peer-reviewer has helped him with his academic and professional career.
Dr. Assari is also listed as a top peer reviewer by Publons, that has ranked more than 100,000 peer reviewers across the globe.