About the Authors

Paul D. James

pjames@toh.on.ca

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliations Department of Medicine and the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Calgary Research and Education in Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy (CREATE), Calgary, Canada

Zhao Wu Meng

‡ These authors are co-first authors on this work.

Affiliation Department of Medicine and the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Mei Zhang

Affiliation Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Paul J. Belletrutti

Affiliations Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Calgary Research and Education in Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy (CREATE), Calgary, Canada

Rachid Mohamed

Affiliations Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Calgary Research and Education in Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy (CREATE), Calgary, Canada

William Ghali

Affiliations Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Derek J. Roberts

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

Guillaume Martel

Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Steven J. Heitman

Affiliations Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, Calgary Research and Education in Advanced Therapeutic Endoscopy (CREATE), Calgary, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: PDJ RM SJH. Data curation: PDJ ZWM MZ. Formal analysis: PDJ ZWM MZ DJR RM PJB WG GM SJH. Funding acquisition: PDJ SJH. Investigation: PDJ ZWM MZ. Methodology: PDJ MZ DJR RM PJB WG SJH. Project administration: PDJ ZWM. Resources: PDJ SJH. Supervision: WG SJH. Writing – original draft: PDJ ZWM MZ DJR RM PJB WG GM SJH. Writing – review & editing: PDJ ZWM.