*Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Hospital and Health Sciences System and Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois;
†Center for Management of Complex Chronic Care, Edward Hines Jr. Veterans Affairs Hospital, Hines, Illinois;
‡Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio;
§Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina;
‖Jackson State University and University of Mississippi Medical Center, Center for Health of Minority Males, Jackson, Mississippi;
¶Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland;
**Multidisciplinary Research Center, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia;
††Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center at Harlem Hospital, New York, New York;
‡‡Department of Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, Tennessee;
§§Department of Medicine, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio;
‖‖National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland;
¶¶Department of Medicine, Charles R. Drew University, Los Angeles, California;
***Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama; and
†††Department of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Correspondence: Dr. Anna Porter, Section of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, 820 S. Wood Street (M/C 793), Chicago, IL 60612. Email: [email protected]
Received August 6, 2013
Accepted November 1, 2013