About the Authors

E. Ray Dorsey

ray.dorsey@ctcc.rochester.edu

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Joel P. Thompson

Affiliation School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Melisa Carrasco

Affiliation School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Jason de Roulet

Affiliation University Hospitals, Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Philip Vitticore

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Sean Nicholson

Affiliation Department of Policy Analysis and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, United States of America

S. Claiborne Johnston

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

Robert G. Holloway

Affiliation Department of Neurology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States of America

Hamilton Moses III

Affiliations The Alerion Institute, North Garden, Virginia, United States of America, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

Dr. Moses advises academic medical centers, foundations, and pharmaceutical companies as chairman of Alerion Advisors, and was previously a partner of the Boston Consulting Group.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RD SN SCJ RH HMI. Performed the experiments: RD JPT MC JdR PV. Analyzed the data: RD JPT MC JdR PV SN SCJ RH HMI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RD. Wrote the paper: RD JPT MC JdR PV SN SCJ RH HMI.