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7 IBD-Inspired Gift Ideas for Valentine’s Day

By Tina Aswani Omprakash February 13, 2019 One woman living with Crohn’s shares thoughtful Valentine’s gift ideas for the IBD warrior in your life. Valentine’s Day can be an anxiety-inducing holiday for many people. Especially for those of us living...

OYC Trailblazers: An Ode to My Father & Fellow IBD Warrior

This year I’m starting a new series called Own Your Crohn’s (OYC) TrailBlazers in which I share stories of other chronic illness warriors and their experiences. And who better to begin this series than my father, a long-time veteran of Crohn’s...

IBD Awareness Week Line-Up: Diversity, Mental Health & More!

Today kicks off Crohn’s & Colitis Awareness Week! The lead-up to this week has included my (very exciting!) feature on the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation’s website for general IBD awareness and for racial and ethnic minorities. I also had the...

All of these exceptional women have won awards this year for their public advocacy efforts

Winner, winner! Inspirational role models we look up to. Ostomy awareness involves advocacy, and to be effective in advocating for change we need influencers. Advocacy can be standing up and speaking out for a cause, voicing concerns about misconceptions, or...

Real Talk about Ostomies

On the eve of World Ostomy Day, I write this blog post in hopes of debunking many of the myths surrounding living with an ostomy. So here goes nothing… I always get super excited when friends and family muster up the courage to ask about my ostomy. It makes me...

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Highlights from ACG 2024: SAIA’s IBDesis’ Patient Experience

Dec 4, 2024

By: Madhura Balasubramaniam, Sharan Khela & Tina Aswani-Omprakash Our patient advocate team, SAIA’s IBDesis, were honoured to participate in the American College of Gastroenterology’s (ACG) Annual Scientific Meeting in Philadelphia, PA, USA, between October 25th...

SAIA is proud to announce Tina Aswani-Omprakash, MPH as our full-time CEO!

Nov 18, 2024

SAIA is honoured to announce that Tina Aswani-Omprakash, MPH, is now our full-time Chief Executive Officer 🎉🎉 Written by Madhura Balasubramaniam, Sharan Khela, Dr. Neilanjan Nandi & SAIA’s Board of Directors Tina is a patient advocate and thought leader par...

HealtheVoices 10-Year Anniversary (A Reminder of Why We Advocate)

Oct 19, 2024

Originally published by The Insighters® on October 18th, 2024: https://theinsighters.com/blog-posts/13 As I reflect on my HealtheVoices experience this year on the conference’s 10-year anniversary, I see a bastion of hope, of love, and of support for years to come....

How Ostomy Surgery Impacted My Life

Oct 5, 2024

How ostomy surgery gave Tina Aswani-Omprakash her life back and the impact these surgeries can have in IBD treatment. Originally published on IBD Social Circle's Blog It is estimated that approximately three-quarters of Crohn’s disease patients and a third of...

Managing Crohn’s Disease and Going Back to School

Sep 4, 2024

In the summer of 2023, I graduated from Mount Sinai’s Icahn School of Medicine with a Master of Public Health (MPH) degree. In 2018 and 2019, as I was considering supplementing my patient advocacy work with a formal education in health, it was daunting to think how I...

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