by Sharan Khela, Ian Goldstein, Basmah Ali, & Rameshwar Chaudhary | Jun 18, 2026 | Blog
Reviewed by: Madhura Balasubramaniam, MA & Tina Aswani Omprakash, MPH Medically Reviewed by: Aasma Shaukat, MD, MPH This year, a few patient advocates from Team SAIA attended Digestive Disease Week (DDW) in Chicago from May 2nd–5th, 2026 to bring our patient...
by Srishti Kamboj | Jun 11, 2026 | Blog
We come from a town in Haryana, India, where words like “Ulcerative Colitis”, “Crohn’s Disease” or “IBD” simply don’t exist in our everyday lives. Growing up, the only stomach issues we ever heard of were simple stomach infections that came and went. If someone got...
by Vincent Tan | May 11, 2026 | Blog
When people hear “Crohn’s disease”, many picture just a stomach issue – something fixed with diet or pills. In reality, especially for those with perianal complications, it reshapes your entire life: how you structure your day, how much energy you can spare, and how...
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...
