About the Authors
- Minal S. Kale
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* E-mail: minal.kale@mountsinai.org
Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- Alex D. Federman
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Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- Katherine Krauskopf
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Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- Michael Wolf
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Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Rachel O’Conor
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Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
- Melissa Martynenko
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Affiliation Division of General Internal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
- Howard Leventhal
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Affiliation Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America
- Juan P. Wisnivesky
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Affiliations Division of General Internal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America
Competing Interests
No conflicts of interest exist for the following authors: Katherine Krauskopf, Rachel O’Conor, Melissa Martynenko, Michael S. Wolf, Alex D. Federman, or Howard Leventhal. Juan P. Wisnivesky is a member of the research board of EHE International, has received consulting fees from Merck, UBS and IMS Health, and was awarded a research grant from GlaxoSmithKline to conduct a COPD study. Minal S. Kale has received a consulting honorarium from the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MSK ADF KK MW RO MM HL JPW. Analyzed the data: MSK JPW. Wrote the paper: MSK ADF KK MW RO MM HL JPW.