2013 Recipient

ACG IBD Research AwardsThese five awards are given to the best papers by fellows in the Inflammatory BowelDisease category as determined by the ACG Educational Affairs Committee from allabstracts submitted for the ACG Annual Meeting.2013 RecipientsRisk of Non-melanoma Skin Cancer in Ulcerative Colitis Patients Treated withThiopurines: A Nationwide Retrospective CohortAli Abbas, MD, MPH, Rawaa Almukhtar, MD, Nabeel Khan, MD, University of Florida,Gainesville, FL, Louisiana State University Health Science Center, New Orleans, LA,Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System, New Orleans, LAInflammatory Bowel Disease Patients with Poor Sleep Quality also Have a Poor Qualityof Life: A Correlation between the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and Short InflammatoryBowel Disease QuestionnaireJami Kinnucan, MD, Jonathan Stein, BS, Sarah Goeppinger, BS, David Rubin, MD, FACG,Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL, PritzkerSchool of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, ILU.S. Readmission Rates and Costs Following Hospitalization for Inflammatory BowelDiseaseSaurabh Sethi, MD, MPH, Vaibhav Wadhwa, MBBS, Alan Moss, MD, Beth IsraelDeaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital, New Delhi, IndiaNovel Gene-Gene and Gene-Environment Interactions in Ulcerative ColitisMing-Hsi Wang, MD, PhD, Claudio Fiocchi, MD, Xiaofeng Zhu, PhD, Stephan Ripke,MD Ilyas Kamboh, PhD, Nancy Rebert, MS, Richard Duerr, MD, Jean-Paul Achkar, MD,FACG, Cleveland Clinic Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland, OH, Case Western ReserveUniversity, Cleveland, OH, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, University ofPittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PACorrelation of Intestinal Tissue Anti-TNF Drug Levels with Endoscopic Disease Activityin Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: The ATLAS StudyAndrew Yarur, MD, Scott Hauenstein, PhD, Daniel Sussman, MD, MSPH, Jamie Barkin,MD, MACG, Amar Deshpande, MD, Maria Quintero, MD, Steven Lockton, PhD, SharatSingh, PhD, Maria Abreu, MD, University of Miami, Miami, FL, Prometheus Labs, SanDiego, CA57