About the Authors

Abdallah S. Attia

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

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Mohammad Hussein

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Mohamed A. Aboueisha

Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

Mahmoud Omar

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Mohanad R. Youssef

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Nicholas Mankowski

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Michael Miller

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Ruhul Munshi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Aubrey Swinford

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Adam Kline

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Therese Nguyen

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Eman Toraih

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, Genetics Unit, Department of Histology and Cell Biology, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

Juan Duchesne

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Emad Kandil

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

ekandil@tulane.edu

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.