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20 Years of IBD: How It’s Shaped Me & My Leadership
By Tina Aswani-Omprakash, MPH 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...
Tina’s Story: One Woman’s Burden of Living With Sjögren’s Disease
For Tina, a Sjögren's disease diagnosis brought long-awaited answers and sparked her journey into patient advocacy By Tina Aswani-Omprakash **Originally published by Novartis on https://www.novartis.com/us-en/stories/living-with-sjogrens-disease-one-womans-story. For...
How to Own Your Crohn’s & Ostomy While Traveling to India
By Tina Aswani-Omprakash 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...
Key Takeaways from Advances in IBD (AIBD) 2024
By Tina Aswani-Omprakash & Natalie Hayden **This article has also been published on Natalie's blog: Lights, Camera, Crohn's ** As two bloggers and patient thought leaders in the IBD community, we were thrilled and honored to attend and speak at the Advances...
Navigating Mental Health in Crohn’s Disease
Did you know that approximately 25% of people living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) report significant symptoms of post-traumatic stress (PTS)? This PTS is directly related to disease experiences and related hospitalizations and is referred to as...
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How to Own Your Crohn’s & Ostomy While Traveling to India
By Tina Aswani-Omprakash 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...
Navigating Mental Health in Crohn’s Disease
Did you know that approximately 25% of people living with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) report significant symptoms of post-traumatic stress (PTS)? This PTS is directly related to disease experiences and related hospitalizations and is referred to as...
SAIA is proud to announce Tina Aswani-Omprakash, MPH as our full-time CEO!
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...
What I’ve Learned About Starting an Advanced Therapy for Crohn’s Disease
Are you getting ready to start an advanced therapy (for example, a biologic or small molecule medication) for the first time for your Crohn’s disease? Or perhaps this is round 2, 3, or 4 when it comes to trying advanced therapies to better manage your Crohn’s? Whether...
Accepting My Crohn’s Disease to Finally Become Me
A person I admire once said, “Once you stop fighting your illness, you will allow acceptance to emerge.” I guess I had never looked at illness that way before. Society tells us to fight illness to our last breath, but is it really a fighting attitude we should...