Own Your Crohn’s

Empowering the Chronically Ill & Disabled to Lead Fuller Lives

MC Capital T Reppin’ from the BK Walk!

Thanks to the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation for the opportunity to serve my fellow IBDers by sharing my experiences as well as introducing past and present Honored Heroes at the Brooklyn Take Steps Walk. Hats off to all of you for being brave enough to share...

12 News to Your Health IBD Segment

My TV debut with News 12 NJ! I discuss having inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and ostomy surgery alongside Rosemarie Golombos, Executive Director of the NJ Chapter of the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation. Thank you, Prashanthi Musapet, for the special segment and...

Honoring My Late Father

(Daddy at his Doctoral Commencement at Columbia University in the ’70s.)This Father’s Day I honor all fathers. I especially honor my father who devoted his life to the sciences and to his family. He toiled endlessly until the very last minute working until...

TINA ASWANI OMPRAKASH | 2018 NYC ADULT HONORED HERO

I was at the top of my game having just graduated college with a Wall Street career all lined up and BAM, just like that, the colitis hit. At the tender age of 22, when my life was just supposed to be beginning, my life became a perpetual case of where’s the...

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“I Had an Ostomy—and It Changed My Life”

Dec 11, 2019

For these people living with Crohn's disease, ostomy surgery made everything from the ordinary to the extraordinary possible. By Jennifer Rainey Marquez Excerpt taken from HealthCentral. Article originally published in HealthCentral on November 27th, 2019:...

The Other Side of Crohn’s: Caregiving

Dec 9, 2019

By Anand Omprakash Originally published by the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation on December 3rd, 2019: https://www.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/anands-story “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” – Robert A...

How a clinical trial helped this Crohn’s advocate finally reach remission

Nov 24, 2019

Originally published on November 22, 2019 on Antidote's website Like many people living with Crohn's disease, Tina Aswani Omprakash had trouble finding a treatment that would send her symptoms into remission. After trying many of the common Crohn's treatments on...

Ostomy Awareness Day: Empowering Ostomates to Live Fuller Lives

Nov 22, 2019

Last month, Amber Wallace Ogle of Ostomy Diaries & I got together with Hollister, Inc. (a major ostomy manufacturer) to bring our audiences a discussion on how to lead a fuller life with an ostomy. Our aim was to engage viewers from around the world who may be...

The Healio Disruptive Innovator Award: Moving the Needle on IBD Care

Nov 16, 2019

A few weeks ago on Diwali Day, I won the Healio Disruptive Innovator Award for the Patient Voice category at the American College of Gastroenterology's conference in San Antonio, Texas! This award is presented to the patient advocate who helps move the needle on GI...

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