About the Authors

Ilan Fleisher

Contributed equally to this work with: Ilan Fleisher, Dawn A. Fishbein

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

ifleish@gmail.com

Affiliations MedStar Health Research Institute, MedStar Health, Hyattsville, MD, United States of America, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY, United States of America

Alexander G. Geboy

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations MedStar Health Research Institute, MedStar Health, Hyattsville, MD, United States of America, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC, United States of America

Whitney Nichols

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations MedStar Health Research Institute, MedStar Health, Hyattsville, MD, United States of America, Frank H. Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac, North Haven, CT, United States of America

Sameer Desale

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation MedStar Health Research Institute, MedStar Health, Hyattsville, MD, United States of America

Stephen Fernandez

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation MedStar Health Research Institute, MedStar Health, Hyattsville, MD, United States of America

Peter Basch

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation MedStar Health, Columbia, MD, United States of America

Dawn A. Fishbein

Contributed equally to this work with: Ilan Fleisher, Dawn A. Fishbein

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations MedStar Health Research Institute, MedStar Health, Hyattsville, MD, United States of America, MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

To the best of our knowledge, no conflict of interest, financial or other, exists; except for Dr. Fishbein who has recently served as an Advisor for Gilead regarding HCV Elimination. We have included acknowledgements after the discussion. Dr. Fishbein has been funded by Gilead Sciences FOCUS Partnership for her research and as an Advisor to Gilead on HCV Elimination. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.