About the Authors

Leila A. Haidari

Affiliation Public Health Computational and Operational Research (PHICOR) Group, School of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Diana L. Connor

Affiliation Public Health Computational and Operational Research (PHICOR) Group, School of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Angela R. Wateska

Affiliation Public Health Computational and Operational Research (PHICOR) Group, School of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Shawn T. Brown

Affiliation Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Leslie E. Mueller

Affiliation Public Health Computational and Operational Research (PHICOR) Group, School of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Bryan A. Norman

Affiliation Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Michelle M. Schmitz

Affiliation Public Health Computational and Operational Research (PHICOR) Group, School of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Proma Paul

Affiliation Public Health Computational and Operational Research (PHICOR) Group, School of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jayant Rajgopal

Affiliation Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Joel S. Welling

Affiliation Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Jim Leonard

Affiliation Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Sheng-I Chen

Affiliation Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Bruce Y. Lee

BYL1@pitt.edu

Affiliation Public Health Computational and Operational Research (PHICOR) Group, School of Medicine and Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: LAH DLC ARW STB LEM BAN MMS PP JR JSW JL SC BYL. Performed the experiments: LAH DLC ARW STB LEM BAN MMS PP JR JSW JL SC BYL. Analyzed the data: LAH DLC ARW STB LEM BAN MMS PP JR JSW JL SC BYL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: LAH DLC ARW STB LEM BAN MMS PP JR JSW JL SC BYL. Wrote the paper: LAH DLC ARW STB LEM BAN MMS PP JR JSW JL SC BYL.