About the Authors

Susan G. Dorsey

Contributed equally to this work with: Susan G. Dorsey, Angela R. Starkweather

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pain & Translational Symptom Science and Center to Advance Chronic Pain Research, University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Cynthia L. Renn

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pain & Translational Symptom Science and Center to Advance Chronic Pain Research, University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Mari Griffioen

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Delaware School of Nursing, Newark, Delaware, United States of America

Cameron B. Lassiter

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Graduate Program in Life Sciences Molecular Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Shijun Zhu

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pain & Translational Symptom Science and Center to Advance Chronic Pain Research, University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Heather Huot-Creasy

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Carrie McCracken

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Anup Mahurkar

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Amol C. Shetty

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute for Genome Sciences, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Colleen K. Jackson-Cook

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology Division of Molecular Diagnostics, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Hyungsuk Kim

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Wendy A. Henderson

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Leorey Saligan

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Jessica Gill

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Luana Colloca

Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pain & Translational Symptom Science and Center to Advance Chronic Pain Research, University of Maryland School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Debra E. Lyon

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Florida Gainesville College of Nursing, Gainesville, Florida, United States of America

Angela R. Starkweather

Contributed equally to this work with: Susan G. Dorsey, Angela R. Starkweather

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

angela.starkweather@uconn.edu

Affiliation Center for Advancement in Managing Pain, University of Connecticut School of Nursing, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

SGD, CLR, MG, and ARS have a patent pending (62/607,969 filed 12/20/17) on Biomarkers of Acute and Chronic Pain. The other authors declare no competing interests.