A Summary of the 2016 James W. Freston Conference of the American Gastroenterological Association: Intestinal Metaplasia in the Esophagus and Stomach: Origins, Differences, Similarities and Significance

Affiliations

• ¹ Center for Esophageal Diseases, Baylor University Medical Center and Center for Esophageal Research, Baylor Scott and White Research Institute, Dallas, Texas. Electronic address: sjspechler@aol.com.
• ² Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• ³ Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine, Irving Cancer Research Center, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.
• ⁴ Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
• ⁵ Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• ⁶ Miraca Life Sciences Research Institute, Irving, Texas.
• ⁷ Nashville VA Medical Center and the Section of Surgical Sciences and Epithelial Biology Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
• ⁸ Department of Gastroenterology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁹ Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
• ¹⁰ Division of Biomedical Research Workforce, Office of Extramural Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
• ¹¹ Department of Biology Biochemistry, University of Houston, Texas.
• ¹² Division of Gastroenterology, Departments of Medicine, Pathology & Immunology, and Developmental Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.
• ¹³ Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
• ¹⁴ Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
• ¹⁵ Esophageal Diseases Center, Department of Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Surgical Service, Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
• ¹⁶ Department of Surgery, Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases, Center for Human Development, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York.
• ¹⁷ Division of Gastroenterology, Departments of Medicine and Genetics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ¹⁸ Center for Esophageal Diseases and Swallowing, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
• ¹⁹ Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
• ²⁰ Center for Esophageal Diseases, Baylor University Medical Center and Center for Esophageal Research, Baylor Scott and White Research Institute, Dallas, Texas.
• ²¹ Department of Cancer Biology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida.
• ²² Esophageal Diseases Center, Department of Internal Medicine and the Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Medical Service, Dallas VA Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
• ²³ Centre for Tumor Biology, Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom.