About the Authors

Victor Nauffal

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Yiyi Zhang

Affiliation Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Tanyanan Tanawuttiwat

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Elena Blasco-Colmenares

Affiliation Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

John Rickard

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Joseph E. Marine

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Barbara Butcher

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Sanaz Norgard

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Timm-Michael Dickfeld

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Kenneth A. Ellenbogen

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Eliseo Guallar

Affiliation Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology and Clinical Research, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Gordon F. Tomaselli

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Alan Cheng

alcheng@jhmi.edu

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

AC has received honorarium from Boston Scientific, Medtronic and St. Jude Medical for participation in fellows educational programs and advisory councils. AC is currently employed by Medtronic as their VP of clinical research for defibrillators. KAE has received honoraria from Medtronic, Boston Scientific, Biotronik, served as a consultant for Medtronic, Boston Scientific, St. Jude Medical and received fellowship support from Medtronic and Boston Scientific; and JR has received honoraria from St. Jude Medical. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: VN AC GT EG. Data curation: VN YZ EG EBC SN BB. Formal analysis: VN YZ EG. Funding acquisition: AC GT. Investigation: VN SN BB TT JEM AC GT. Methodology: VN AC GT EG YZ. Project administration: VN AC. Resources: VN SN BB. Software: VN YZ SN BB. Supervision: AC GT EG. Validation: VN AC GT EG TT JR YZ EBC JEM KAE TMD. Visualization: VN AC YZ. Writing – original draft: VN. Writing – review & editing: TT AC GT EG JEM JR YZ EG BB SN KAE TMD.