2021 Abstract Awards 2021 ACG AUXILIARY AWARDS These two awards are presented by the Auxiliary to the best scientific paper or poster submitted by a fellow-in-training and by a physician (non-trainee). The award recipients are selected by the ACG Educational Affairs Committee.
Fellow-in-Training Recipient
To Scope or Not to Scope? Clearance for Transesophageal Echocardiography in Cirrhotics: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Banreet Dhindsa, MD1, Michelle Le, DO1, Alexander Praus, MD1, Yassin Naga, MD2, Syed Mohsin Saghir, MD2, Harmeet Mashiana, MBBS1, Amaninder Dhaliwal, MD3, Saurabh Chandan, MD4, Daryl Ramai, MD, MSc5, Shailender Singh, MD1, Ishfaq Bhat, MD1, Douglas Adler, MD6; 1University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE; 2University of Nevada School of Medicine, Las Vegas, NV; 3University of South Florida Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; 4 Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, NE; 5University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; 6University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT
Physician (non-trainee) Recipient
Real World Dispensary Data for IBD Patients Using Medical Cannabis Jami A. R. Kinnucan, MD, FACG1, Arun Swaminath, MD2, Maheep S. Sangha, MD2, Joanna S. Zeiger, MS, PhD3; 1University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI; 2Northwell Health, Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, NY; 3Canna Research Foundation, Boulder, CO
ACG CASE REPORTS JOURNAL AWARDS These two awards are given to the best posters in the Clinical Vignettes/Case Reports category as determined by the ACG Educational Affairs Committee.
Accelerated Balloon-Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration (BRTO): An Effective Bow & Arrow in the Arsenal Against Isolated Gastric Varices (IGV) Smit S. Deliwala, MD1, Murtaza S. Hussain, MD1, Anoosha Ponnapalli, MD1, Samuel Igbinedion, MD2, Mamoon Elbedawi, MD, FACG1, Anish Bansal, MD3, Saurabh Chawla, MD, FACG4; 1Michigan State University at Hurley Medical Center, Flint, MI; 2LSU HSC Shreveport, Shreveport, LA; 3Hurley Medical Center, Flint, MI; 4Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 34 | 2020–2021 ACG AWARDS & LEADERSHIP
Diffuse Severe Idiopathic Muscular Hypertrophy of the Esophagus (IMHE) Treated With Peroral Endoscopic Myotomy (POEM) Jamie Horrigan, MD1, Dmitriy Kedrin, MD, PhD2, Stuart Gordon, MD1, B. Fernando Santos, MD, FACS1, Heiko Pohl, MD, MPH3; 1Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH; 2Elliot Health System, Manchester, NH; 3 White River Junction VA Medical Center, White River Junction, VT
OUTSTANDING RESEARCH AWARDS These thirteen awardees are selected from among all abstracts submitted, with one winner in each category, excluding Clinical Vignettes/Case Reports, Endoscopy Video Forum and Pediatric GI. The award recipients are selected by the ACG Educational Affairs Committee.
Biliary/Pancreas Category
Novel High-Pressure Water Jet-Based System Effectively Decreases Bioburden in the Preprocessing of Duodenoscope’s Elevator Mechanism Immediately After an ERCP: Preliminary Findings of a Pilot Study Kapil Gupta, MD, Yazan Abboud, MD, Kenneth Park, MD, Quin Liu, MD, Srinivas Gaddam, MD, Simon Lo, MD; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Colon Category
CP101, an Investigational Orally Administered Microbiome Therapeutic, Increases Intestinal Microbiome Diversity and Prevents Recurrent C. difficile Infection: Results From a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial Sahil Khanna, MBBS, MS1, Colleen R. Kelly, MD, FACG2, Thomas Louie, MD3, Monika Fisher, MD, MSc4, Susy Hota, MD, MSc5, Bharat Misra, MD6, Nicholas W. Van Hise, PharmD7, Eugene F. Yen, MD, MBA, FACG8, Jeff S. Bullock, MD9, John Pullman, MD10, Richard Nathan, DO11, Michael Silverman, MD12, Ian Davis, MD13, Sarah McGill, MD, MS14, Ylaine Gerardin, PhD15, Josh Silva, BS15, Darrell Pardi, MD, MS1, Robert Orenstein, DO16, Ari Grinspan, MD17, Najwa El-Nachef, MD18, Colleen S. Kraft, MD, MSc19, Shrish Budree, MD15, Thomas J. Borody, MD, PhD, DSc, FRACP, FACG20, Zain Kassam, MD, MPH15, Jessica R. Allegretti, MD, MPH, FACG21; 1Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 2Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Lifespan Physician Group Gastroenterology, East Providence, RI, 3University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, 4Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, 5University of Toronto and University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada, 6Borland Groover Clinic, Jacksonville, FL, 7Metro Infectious Disease Consultants, Burr Ridge, IL,
