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Written By Madhura, Basmah, Nour & Demi 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...

Read the first part of Tanya’s Pregnancy Journey Living with Crohn’s Disease in India on SAIA’s blog: https://southasianibd.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...

My name is Tanya, and I live in Chennai, India. I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease in 1999, a time when little was known about IBD in India. This means that I have segments of intestinal narrowing and scarring throughout my small intestine known as strictures…

By Tina Aswani-Omprakash As IBD warriors, it’s always nerve-wracking to travel withour conditions and/or an ostomy. For me, it’s been 7 years of me traveling allover the U.S. and Europe for patient advocacy work. And even though I’ve spokenmany times virtually for...

Written by: Rohit Aita Reviewed by: Lea Ann Chen, MD At Digestive Disease Week (DDW) in Washington, D.C., I had the privilege of being involved as co-author on an abstract and presentation given by Dr. Lea Ann Chen, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, titled...

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...

Written by: Nour Al-Timimi In the poster session at DDW 2024, I learned about a new fascinating method that can help providers and patients predict relapse from the poster titled "Intestinal Ultrasound is Predictive of Disease Relapse in Asymptomatic Inflammatory...

As part of the 2024 Digestive Disease Week Conference (DDW), I had the honor of attending a session led by the American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) and the Pan African Organization for Health, Education, and Research (POHER) on the incidence and...

I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease shortly after I graduated from my Master’s program, and after a two-year break, I am now pursuing a full-time Ph.D. in International Relations. Like many countries, IBD is not legally recognised as a disability that requires...

In today's blog post, SAIA's President, Tina, shares her experience with the new imaging modality for IBD called intestinal ultrasound (IUS): "Last week, I had my first intestinal ultrasound. I had been very nervous the last month getting ready to go in for IUS as...