About the Authors

Meredith Mealer

* Email: Meredith.Mealer@ucdenver.edu

Affiliation Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

John Kittelson

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

B. Taylor Thompson

Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital, Biostatistics Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Arthur P. Wheeler

Affiliation Vanderbilt University Medical Center, School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

John C. Magee

Affiliation University of Michigan, Department of Surgery, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America

Ronald J. Sokol

Affiliations Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Marc Moss

Affiliations Division of Pulmonary Sciences and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Michael G. Kahn

Affiliations Colorado Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Center, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: M. Mealer JK BTT APW JCM RJS M. Moss MGK. Performed the experiments: M. Mealer MGK. Analyzed the data: M. Mealer JK M. Moss MGK. Wrote the manuscript: M. Mealer JK BTT APW JCM RJS M. Moss MGK.