About the Authors

Anoop M. Nambiar

Nambiar@uthscsa.edu

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Antonio R. Anzueto

Contributed equally to this work with: Antonio R. Anzueto, Jay I. Peters

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Jay I. Peters

Contributed equally to this work with: Antonio R. Anzueto, Jay I. Peters

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Diseases and Critical Care Medicine, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, San Antonio, Texas, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AMN JIP. Data curation: AMN. Formal analysis: AMN. Funding acquisition: AMN. Investigation: AMN. Methodology: AMN ARA JIP. Project administration: AMN ARA JIP. Resources: AMN ARA JIP. Supervision: ARA JIP. Validation: AMN ARA JIP. Visualization: AMN ARA JIP. Writing – original draft: AMN. Writing – review & editing: AMN ARA JIP.