1Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL.
2University of Alabama at Birmingham, Lister Hill Center for Health Policy, Birmingham, AL.
3University of Alabama at Birmingham, Center for the Study of Community Health, Birmingham, AL.
4Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
5Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
6Division of Digestive Health and Liver Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, FL.
Received 9 December 2021. Revision received 22 February 2022.
Accepted 20 March 2022.
R.M.C. is supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under award number K08DK125769. B.J.O. is supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences Grant/award number: 1KL2TR003097) and the Career Development Award for Clinical/Outcomes/Education Research from the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract.
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Correspondence: Robert M. Cannon, MD, Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 701 19th St S, LHRB 748, Birmingham, AL 35223. ([email protected]).
