About the Authors

Fouad Chouairi

Contributed equally to this work with: Fouad Chouairi, Clancy W. Mullan

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

tariq.ahmad@yale.edu (TA); fouad.chouairi@yale.edu (FC)

Affiliation Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Clancy W. Mullan

Contributed equally to this work with: Fouad Chouairi, Clancy W. Mullan

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

Affiliations Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Sounok Sen

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Makoto Mori

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Michael Fuery

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Robert W. Elder

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Division of Transplantation, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Joshua Lesse

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Kelsey Norton

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Katherine A. Clark

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

P. Elliott Miller

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

David Mulligan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Division of Transplantation, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Richard Formica

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Nephrology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Joseph G. Rogers

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cardiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Daniel Jacoby

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Christopher Maulion

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Muhammad Anwer

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Arnar Geirsson

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Nihar R. Desai

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Tariq Ahmad

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

tariq.ahmad@yale.edu (TA); fouad.chouairi@yale.edu (FC)

Affiliations Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Ahmad is a consultant for Amgen, Cytokinetics, Relypsa, and Novartis. Dr. Desai works under contract with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to develop and maintain performance measures used for public reporting and pay for performance programs. He reports research grants and consulting for Amgen, Astra Zeneca, Boehringer Ingelheim, Cytokinetics, Medicines Company, Relypsa, Novartis, and SCPharmaceuticals. David Mulligan, MD, is the elected President of UNOS/OPTN and Chair of the Advisory Council on Transplantation to the Secretary of HHS to lead the oversight and policy development of organ transplantation in the United States. Richard Formica, MD, is the President of the American Society of Transplantation, Member of the OPTN/UNOS Membership and Professional Standards Committee, and the Member of the Visiting Committee for the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients. Joseph G Rogers, MD is the President-elect of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. Results and views in this manuscript do not represent views of these organizations. No other authors have anything to disclose. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.