1. Christopher R. Friese ( ) is an assistant professor in the School of Nursing at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.
2. Rong Xia is a doctoral student in biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan.
3. Amir Ghaferi is an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery and the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
4. John D. Birkmeyer is executive vice president at Enterprise Support Services and chief academic officer at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Hanover, New Hampshire.
5. Mousumi Banerjee is a research professor of biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan.