About the Authors

Michael A. Scaffidi

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael A. Scaffidi, Karam Elsolh

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

Affiliations Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada, Division of Gastroenterology, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Karam Elsolh

Contributed equally to this work with: Michael A. Scaffidi, Karam Elsolh

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

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Juana Li

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Yash Verma

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Rishi Bansal

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Nikko Gimpaya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Vincent Larivière

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Observatory of Science and Technology, Montreal, Canada

Rishad Khan

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Samir C. Grover

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

samir.grover@utoronto.ca

Affiliations Division of Gastroenterology, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Toronto, Canada

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Rishad Khan has received research grants from AbbVie and Ferring Pharmaceuticals and research funding from Pendopharm. Samir C. Grover has received research grants and personal fees from AbbVie and Ferring Pharmaceuticals, personal fees from Takeda, education grants from Janssen, and has equity in Volo Healthcare. All other authors have no relevant disclosures. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.