About the Authors

Paddy Ssentongo

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

pssentongo@pennstatehealth.psu.edu

Affiliations Center for Neural Engineering, Department of Engineering, Science and Mechanics, The Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joseph A. Lewcun

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

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Xavier Candela

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Anna E. Ssentongo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Eustina G. Kwon

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Djibril M. Ba

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

John S. Oh

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Forster Amponsah-Manu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Surgery, Eastern Regional Hospital, Koforidua, Ghana

Alicia C. McDonald

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Vernon M. Chinchilli

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

David I. Soybel

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Daleela G. Dodge

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine and Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.