About the Authors

Ashutosh Sharma

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, University of British Columbia and St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Gordon Kirkpatrick

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Virginia Chen

Affiliation Prevention Of Organ Failure (PROOF) Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Kate Skolnik

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Zsuzsanna Hollander

Affiliation Prevention Of Organ Failure (PROOF) Centre of Excellence, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Pearce Wilcox

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, University of British Columbia and St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Bradley S. Quon

bradley.quon@hli.ubc.ca

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, University of British Columbia and St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Department of Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BQ AS PW. Data curation: BQ AS VC ZH. Formal analysis: VC ZH. Funding acquisition: BQ AS. Investigation: BQ AS GK. Methodology: BQ AS PW KS GK. Project administration: BQ. Resources: BQ. Software: VC ZH. Supervision: BQ. Validation: BQ AS VC ZH KS. Visualization: AS VC BQ. Writing – original draft: BQ AS GK VC. Writing – review & editing: BQ AS GK VC GK PW.