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Additional members of the CCC Executive Committee are Keri Kim, Shraddha Mainali, Leonard Polizzotto, and Jose I. Suarez. The authors wish to acknowledge the NCS and its Board of Directors for supporting the CCC. The authors also wish to acknowledge the members of the CCC, contributing, to date, in various working groups and modules (listed in the Supplementary Table).

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  1. Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA

    DaiWai M. Olson

  2. Department of Neurology, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, Building 1, Room 101, 1001 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94110, USA

    J. Claude Hemphill III

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All authors have met the requirements for authorship and approved the final manuscript. DMO and JCH conceived of and drafted the manuscript. The CCC and its Executive Committee contributed through the development of the overall CCC, which is the topic of this article, as well as the development of the structure and concepts described.

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Olson, D.M., Hemphill, J.C. & The Curing Coma Campaign and its Executive Committe. The Curing Coma Campaign: Challenging the Paradigm for Disorders of Consciousness. Neurocrit Care 35, 1–3 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12028-021-01290-5

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