1. Department of Surgery; Washington University School of Medicine; St. Louis Missouri
2. Division of Endocrine and Oncologic Surgery, Department of Surgery; Tulane University School of Medicine; New Orleans Louisiana
3. Division of Head and Neck Endocrine Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery; Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Baltimore Maryland
4. Center for Cardiovascular Regeneration; Houston Methodist Research Institute; Houston Texas
5. Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine; Tulane University School of Medicine; New Orleans Louisiana
6. Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System; New Orleans Louisiana U.S.A.