by Madhura Balasubramaniam, Tina Aswani Omprakash | Oct 6, 2025 | Blog
Happy National Coming Out Day to everyone, including those who are ‘out’ of the closet, those who are hoping to come out soon, those who are struggling with being in the closet, and our allies! Did you know that only about 14% of HCPs talk to their patients about...
by Rohit Aita, Team SAIA | Aug 21, 2025 | Blog
Did you know? As of 2019, only 4.6% of U.S. medical students have disclosed some kind of disability to their medical school, which compares to the 25% of adults in the U.S. who have some form of disability according to the CDC. As an IBD patient advocate, my goal has...
by Madhura Balasubramaniam, Basmah Ali, Nour A., Demi Ricario | Jun 2, 2025 | Blog
Reviewed by Tina Aswani-Omprakash Our patient advocate team, SAIA’s IBDesis, was honored to attend Digestive Disease Week (DDW) between May 4 – 6th, 2025, in San Diego, California. DDW 2025 allowed us to learn more about the latest research and developments in...
by Tanya Manohar | Apr 28, 2025 | Blog
Read the first part of Tanya’s Pregnancy Journey Living with Crohn’s Disease in India on SAIA’s blog: https://saia-gi.org/tanyas-pregnancy-journey-living-with-crohns-disease-in-india/ I put off writing this blog for the longest time… I did not know how to write it. In...
by Tanya Manohar | Feb 20, 2025 | Blog
class="cover-image" src="https://saia-gi.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/TanyaIntro-Cover-Image.png" alt="Tanya Blog Image"/ By Tanya ManoharMy name is Tanya, and I live in Chennai, India. I was diagnosed with Crohn’sdisease in 1999, a time when little was known about...
by Tina Aswani Omprakash | Feb 14, 2025 | Blog
As IBD warriors, it’s always nerve-wracking to travel with our conditions and/or an ostomy. For me, it’s been 7 years of me traveling all over the U.S. and Europe for patient advocacy work. And even though I’ve spoken many times virtually for events in India and...
