About the Authors

Gail B. Rattinger

Affiliations Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, School of Pharmacy, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Florham Park, New Jersey, United States of America

C. Daniel Mullins

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ilene H. Zuckerman

Affiliations School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Maryland, United States of America

Eberechukwu Onukwugha

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Loreen D. Walker

Affiliation School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Adi Gundlapalli

Affiliations Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Matthew Samore

Affiliations Veterans Affairs Salt Lake City Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, School of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

Sylvain DeLisle

sdelisle@umaryland.edu

Affiliations Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors have completed the Unified Competing Interest form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available on request from the corresponding author) and declare financial support from the Department of Veterans Affairs (SD), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (SD and MS), Elan Pharmaceuticals (GBR), the American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education (GBR) and by the National Institutes of Health (GBR). There were no financial relationships with any organizations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous 5 years, and no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GBR CDM EO MS SD. Performed the experiments: GBR AG SD. Analyzed the data: GRB IHZ LDW SD. Wrote the paper: GBR CDM IHZ EO AG MS SD. Obtaining funding: MS SD Administrative, technical, or material support: GBR CDM AG LDW MS SD Study supervision: GBR AG SD.