1. Lauren H. Nicholas ( ) is an assistant professor in the Departments of Health Policy and Management and of Surgery at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and School of Medicine, in Baltimore, Maryland, and a faculty associate of the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.
2. Julie P.W. Bynum is an associate professor of medicine at the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, in Lebanon, New Hampshire.
3. Theodore J. Iwashyna is an associate professor of pulmonary and critical care medicine and a faculty associate of the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, both at the University of Michigan.
4. David R. Weir is a professor at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan.
5. Kenneth M. Langa is a professor of medicine and public health, a research professor at the Institute for Social Research, and a research investigator at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, all at the University of Michigan.