McCarty, Thomas R.
Hathorn, Kelly E.
Bazarbashi, Ahmad Najdat
Jajoo, Kunal
Ryou, Marvin
Thompson, Christopher C. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6105-5270
Article History
Received: 2 February 2020
Accepted: 23 June 2020
First Online: 6 July 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Marvin Ryou has the following disclosures: Medtronic/Covidien—Consultant, Pentax—Consultant. Christopher C Thompson has the following disclosures: Apollo Endosurgery—Consultant/Research Support (Consulting fees/Institutional Research Grants), Aspire Bariatrics—Research Support (Institutional Research Grant), BlueFlame Healthcare Venture Fund—General Partner, Boston Scientific—Consultant (Consulting fees), Covidien/Medtronic—Consultant (Consulting Fees), EnVision Endoscopy (Board Member), Fractyl—Consultant/Advisory Board Member (Consulting Fees), GI Dynamics—Consultant (Consulting Fees)/ Research Support (Institutional Research Grant), GI Windows—Ownership interest, Olympus/Spiration—Consultant (Consulting Fees)/Research Support (Equipment Loans). Spatz—Research Support (Institutional Research Grant), USGI Medical—Consultant (Consulting Fees)/Advisory Board Member (Consulting fees)/Research Support (Research Grant). All authors approve of final submission. Thomas R. McCarty, Kelly E. Hathorn, Ahmad Najdat Bazarbashi, and Kunal Jajoo have no conflicts of interest of financial ties to disclose.