by Gaurav Sengupta | Feb 9, 2026 | Blog
A Chance Meeting and Long-Distance Beginnings Radhika and me on our first date Our story began on a note of pure serendipity. Radhika and I met through a mutual friend in the summer of 2013. What’s astonishing to us both is that our friend had invited me to the event...
by Brielle Dojer, MPH | Feb 3, 2026 | Blog
Reviewed by Madhura Balasubramaniam, MA Medically reviewed by Drs. Manasi Agrawal, Ashwin Ananthakrishnan, and Parakkal Deepak In November, I had the privilege to listen to SAIA’s livestream discussion on Demystifying Environmental Triggers in IBD, a much-requested...
by Tina Aswani Omprakash | Jan 12, 2026 | Blog
Looking back 20 years ago… When I first graduated college and started working, I had no idea what my life was going to look like. I was full of excitement but I did have a fear in the back of my mind that I may already have inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in my early...
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...
