2013 Recipient

ACG Governors Awards for Excellence in Clinical ResearchThese five awards, supported by the ACG Board of Governors, are given to the best papersas determined by the ACG Educational Affairs Committee from all abstracts submitted.2013 RecipientsIntestinal Metaplasia of the Stomach Is Associated with an Increased Risk of GastricCancer in a Western PopulationWissam Bleibel, MD, Jeanetta Frye, MD, Justin Gomez, MD, Bryan Sauer, MD, MSc,Vanessa Shami, MD, Andrew Wang, MD, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VAFecal Microbiota Transplantation (FMT) for Treatment of Clostridium difficile Infection(CDI) in Immunocompromised PatientsChioma Ihunnah, MD, MPH, Alexander Khoruts, MD, Monika Fischer, MD, MSCR, AnitaAfzali, MD, MPH, Olga Aroniadis, MD, Amy Barto, MD, Thomas Borody, MD, PhD,Lawrence Brandt, MD, MACG, Andrea Giovanelli, BS, Shelley Gordon, MD, PhD, ElizabethHohmann, MD, Dina Kao, MD, John Kao, MD, PhD, Daniel McQuillen, MD, Mark Mellow,MD, FACG, Kevin Rank, MD, Arnab Ray, MD, Margot Schwartz, MD, MPH, Namita Singh,MD, Neil Stollman, MD, FACG, Christina Surawicz, MD, MACG, David Suskind, MD,Stephen Vindigni, MD, MPH, Ilan Youngster, MD, Colleen Kelly, Brown Alpert MedicalSchool, Providence, RI, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, Indiana UniversitySchool of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, SeattleChildren’s Hospital, Seattle, WA, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY, INTEGRISBaptist Medical Center, Oklahoma City, OK, Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, LA,Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, MA, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN,Northern California Gastroenterology Consultants, Inc., Oakland, CA, California PacificMedical Center, San Francisco, CA, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,Virginia Mason Medical Center, Seattle, WA, Centre for Digestive Diseases, Sydney,Australia, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WAVascular Endothelial Growth Factor Levels in Bile Distinguishes Pancreatic Cancer fromOther Etiologies of Biliary StrictureRamprasad Jegadeesan, MD, Udayakumar Navaneethan, MD, Norma Gutierrez, MD,Preethi Venkatesh, MD, Earl Poptic, MD, Xiuli Liu, MD, Madhusudhan Sanaka, MD,Sunguk Jang, MD, John Vargo, MD, Mansour Parsi, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation,Cleveland, OH55