About the Authors

Jeffrey M. Gelfand

Affiliation University of California, San Francisco Department of Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Douglas S. Goodin

Affiliation University of California, San Francisco Department of Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

W. John Boscardin

Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Rachel Nolan

Affiliation University of California, San Francisco Department of Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Ami Cuneo

Affiliation University of California, San Francisco Department of Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Ari J. Green

AGreen@ucsf.edu

Affiliation University of California, San Francisco Department of Neurology, Multiple Sclerosis Center, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: Jeffrey Gelfand: Dr. Gelfand has received honoraria from the National MS Society for patient education and has received compensation for writing for Journal Watch Neurology. Douglas Goodin: Consultant for Teva, Novartis and Serono, Advisor/Consultant for Bayer. W. John Boscardin: Nothing to disclose. Rachel Nolan: Nothing to disclose. Ami Cuneo: Nothing to disclose. Ari Green: Advisor to Novartis on the use of Optical Coherence Tomography in MS and Service on the Endpoint Adjudication Committee for Applied Clinical Intelligence/Biogen-Idec. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JMG AJG. Performed the experiments: JMG RN AC AJG. Analyzed the data: JMG DSG WJB RN AC AJG. Wrote the paper: JMG DSG WJB AJG.