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Dr. Pfenninger
Dr. Ruhl

Authors

Rebecca Copp Phillips, MD

Principal investigator

Resident at the Midland Family Practice Residency Program at the time of the study.

Presently in practice of Family Medicine in Midland, Michigan.

Terry S. Ruhl, MD

Research supervisor
Corresponding author

Associate Director of the Midland Family Practice Residency Program at the time of the study.

Presently Associate Director of Altoona Family Physicians Family Medicine Residency in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

John L. Pfenninger, MD

Director of the National Procedures Institute
Performed most of the injections
Available for media interviews

Founder and Director of the National Procedures Institute.
Dr. Pfenninger has an active private practice in procedures as well as speaking widely on the topic.

Matthew R. Garber, MD

Investigator

Resident at the Midland Family Practice Residency Program at the time of the study.

Presently in practice of Family Medicine in Hastings, Michigan.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank

	Ling Shih, MD for valuable comments on the manuscript
	Thomas Zuber, MD for performing some of the procedures
	Patricia Wolfgram, MLS for assistance in literature searching
	Midland Family Practice Residency for encouraging beginning researchers.
	Altoona Family Physicians Residency for the time to do all the things that it takes to get a study published.
	Our spouses and families, who put up with all the "wart talk".

Legal stuff

You can read here the information that we have sent to the AMA. Essentially it states that none of us is financially involved in the products mentioned in the study (other than performing the procedure), we all participated in the planning, conducting, writing and reviewing of the study and are willing to stand by the results. None of us received additional funding to perform this research.