Our Studies

The list below represents the currently approved studies for the Division of Gastroenterology at UMass.

• "Characteristics and Treatment Modalities of Late Onset Inflammatory Bowel Diseases"
  Principal Investigator: David Cave. IRB Docket/ID: H00005748
  
  
• "A Multicenter Open-Label Extension Study to Assess Long-Term Safety of PF-00547659 in Subjects With Crohn’s Disease (A7281007 OPERAII)"
  Principal Investigator: JeanMarie Houghton. IRB Docket/ID: H-14711
  
  
• "Definition and Description of a Novel Enteritis Compared with Crohn’s Disease"
  Principal Investigator: David Cave. IRB Docket/ID: H00001855
  
  
• "Outcomes of treatment of post liver transplant HCV patients with sofosbuvir and simeprevir"
  Principal Investigator: Graham Barnard. IRB Docket/ID: H00004804
  
  
• "Findings on colonoscopy follow-up for diverticulitis"
  Principal Investigator: Benjamin Hyatt. IRB Docket/ID: H00006608
  
  
• "An Exploratory Study to Characterize Cell Population in Intestinal Tissue from Subjects with Inflammatory Bowel Disease"
  Principal Investigator: JeanMarie Houghton. IRB Docket/ID: H00006416
  
  
• "Evaluation of risk factors, rates, and outcomes in patients with recurrent acute ischemic colitis"
  Principal Investigator: Randall Pellish. IRB Docket/ID: H00004661
  
  
• "A Comparison of Early Deployment of a Video Capsule (Endocapsule EC-10: Olympus Tokyo, Japan) in the Emergency Department versus Conventional Work-up of Non-hematemesis Gastrointestinal Bleeding [NHGIB]"
  Principal Investigator: David Cave. IRB Docket/ID: H00006661
  
  
• "Use of Brush Cytology for Dysplasia Surveillance and Selection in Barrett’s Esophagus"
  Principal Investigator: Rashmi Patwardhan. IRB Docket/ID: H-14186
  
  
• "Immune Response in Inflammatory Bowel Disease"
  Principal Investigator: JeanMarie Houghton. IRB Docket/ID: H00003696
  
  
• "Outcomes and Data Collection for Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Treatment of Recurrent Clostridium Difficile"
  Principal Investigator: Randall Pellish. IRB Docket/ID: H00003682
  
  
• "Effectiveness of semi-rigid Savary dilators vs. balloon dilators during esophageal dilation in the treatment of esophageal dysmotility"
  Principal Investigator: David Cave. IRB Docket/ID: H00004174
  
  
• "Evaluation of a Novel Motorized Spiral Enteroscope: A Prospective, Multicenter Trial"
  Principal Investigator: Kanishka Bhattacharya. IRB Docket/ID: H00001797
  
  
• "Identifying and quantifying levels of Hepoxilin A3 and Endocannabinoids in intestinal mucosal brushings and mucosal biopsies of subjects with active left-sided ulcerative colitis and ulcerative proctosigmoiditis"
  Principal Investigator: Randall Pellish. IRB Docket/ID: H00003636
  
  
• "Diagnosis of Crohn’s Disease and Ulcerative Colitis and their Subtypes via Urine Sample Analysis of Volatile Organic Compounds by the Electronic ‘e’ Nose"
  Principal Investigator: David Cave. IRB Docket/ID: H-14836
  
  
• "Prospectively identifying patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease using a simple scoring system"
  Principal Investigator: David Cave. IRB Docket/ID: H00005032
  
  
• "A prospective study to establish the sensitivity and specificity of the REBISS and REBISS-PCP scores to assist in the diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease"
  Principal Investigator: David Cave. IRB Docket/ID: H00005255
  
  
• "Retrospective Study to Review the Effects and Outcome of Treatment with Different Classes of Biologics in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease"
  Principal Investigator: Randall Pellish. IRB Docket/ID: H00002774
  
  
• "A Survey of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients’ Perceptions Towards Influenza Vaccination"
  Principal Investigator: Benjamin Hyatt. IRB Docket/ID: H00003292
  
  
• "An Analysis of Patients with Recurrent Small Bowel Bleeding"
  Principal Investigator: David Cave. IRB Docket/ID: H0000332