The winners include:
2014 ACG Junior Faculty Development Grant
• Linda C. Cummings, MD, Case Western (Cleveland), for Medication and Perioperative Effects on Esophageal Cancer Outcomes
• Manish, Gala, MD, Massachusetts General Hospital (Boston), for Identifying High-Risk Genes for Pancreatic Cancer through Multicancer Signatures
• Ashwani K. Singal, MD, University of Alabama (Birmingham), for Translational Bioenergetics in Patients with Alcoholic Liver Disease
2014 ACG Clinical Research Awards
• Julian A. Abrams, MD, Columbia University (New York), for Proton Pump Inhibitors and Clostridium difficile Infection in Children
• Ajay Bansal, MD, Kansas City (Mo.) VA, for Circulating Exosomes and their MicroRNA Profiles in Barrett’s Esophagus
• Darwin L. Conwell, MD, Ohio State (Columbus), for Dietary Soy Isoflavones in Chronic Pancreatitis: Investigating the Anti-inflammatory Effects of Food Innovation Science on Gastrointestinal Disease
• Carole, Macaron, MD, Cleveland Clinic, for Expression of Annexin A10 in Serrated Polyps May Predict the Development of Metachronous Neoplasia
• Sahil Mittal, MD, Baylor (Houston), for Effectiveness of Antiviral Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection
• Leila Neshatian, MD, Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.), for The Effect of Ranolazine on Gastrointestinal Motor Function and Pain in Patients with Diarrhea Predominant Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS-D)
• Jessica E. Ravikoff, MD, Brigham & Women’s (Boston), for Investigation of Dysbiosis and Bile Salt Composition Associated with C. difficile Infection
• Siddharth Singh, MD, Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.), for Comparative-Effectiveness of Different Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-α agents in the Management of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
• Ma Somsouk, MD, UCSF (San Francisco), for Reconstitution of the Gut Microbiome to Reduce Systemic Inflammation During Treated HIV Infection
• Puneeta Tandon, MD, University of Alberta in Canada, for A Randomized Controlled Trial of Twelve Weeks of Home-Based Exercise Training in Patients with Child Pugh Class A and B Cirrhosis
2014 ACG Clinical Research Awards
• Prachi S. Biyani, MD, University Hospitals (Cleveland), for Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Treatment of Chronic Antibiotic Dependent Pouchitis
• Stefany Honigbaum, MD, Johns Hopkins (Baltimore), for The Role of LOXL2 in Fibrosing Pediatric Lung and Liver Disease
• Benjamin N. Stein, MD, Dartmouth Hitchcock (Lebanon, N.H.), for A Pilot, Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial of Promethazine for Treatment of Diabetic Gastroparesis
• Rabindra R. Watson, MD, UCLA (Los Angeles), for Effects of Endoscopic Transoral Outlet Reduction (TORe) on Body Weight, Oral Glucose Tolerance and Satiety in Patients with Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass Failure and Weight RegainACG 2014 “Smaller Programs” Clinical Research Award
• Raluca, Vrabie, MD, Winthrop University (Mineola, N.Y.), for Optimizing Inpatient Inflammatory Bowel Disease Management through a Computerized Physician Order Entry System
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