🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

We are excited to introduce the newest member of SAIA's IBDesis advocacy team 🙌🏽 Meet Rameshwar Chaudhary aka Max (@livingwithumeed), #IBD warrior & #ostomate of Indo-Fijian descent from 🇺🇸 & our Content Creator! Learn more about Max: southasianibd.org/ibdesis/ramesh…

Every year, I’m psyched to attend Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Take Steps Walk in NYC 🎉 This is where my #patientadvocacy journey began in 2018 w the Honored Hero award & telling my #Crohns #ostomy story. I knew I couldn’t go back under the covers & that’s how Own Your Crohn’s was born 🧿

SAIA is proud to introduce Priya Sehgal MD MS MPH as SAIA's new Events Liaison! Learn more about Priya: southasianibd.org/membership-com… We’re so thrilled to have Dr. Sehgal bring her passion and expertise to events that uplift and unite the #SouthAsianIBD community.

#WIG and #WIE at Pakistan GI & Liver Diseases Society conference in #Karachi More 🔋 to women ♀️ #genderequity WomenInGastroenterology ACG Women In Endoscopy | WIE Nazish Butt 🇵🇰 my_UEG UN Women Government of Pakistan Ministry of National Health Services, Pakistan SAIA Anita Afzali MD, MPH, MHCM, FACG, AGAF Amy Oxentenko MD World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO)

This #PrideMonth, we were honored to host our pathbreaking talk, Pride in GI 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ To continue to support our LGBTQIA+ community, we’ve put together a list of resources including virtual support groups and country specific resources where available! Check out the resource here:

We're thrilled to share our own Chair of the Membership Committee, @reezwanacmd, was featured in an article in HealthCentral 🙌🏽 This article features expert insights on #colonoscopy and #ulcerativecolitis and answers common patient questions around colonoscopies:

We are thrilled to share that our latest newsletter is now out, featuring: 🔹Updates from our successful events 🔹Research highlights 🔹Conferences & Events we participated in AND SO MUCH MORE 💥 Sign up today to receive our newsletter: saibda.memberclicks.net/new-member-app…

🎓 After 2 transformative years of IBD fellowship WashU Medicine Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center with incredible mentors Matthew Ciorba MD & Parakkal Deepak MD, MS, FACG 📍 Now starting as faculty UNMC_GIHEP 🙏 Forever grateful to my husband & entire family; none of this would have been possible without their unwavering support!

What do you do when the first symptoms of IBD appear? It can be confusing and scary, especially with cultural pressures to stay silent. In this clip, advocate Tina Tina Aswani-Omprakash, MPH of the South Asian IBD Alliance (SAIA) outlines your critical first steps.

Today, #IndependenceDay2025, marks 17 yrs since my emergency #colectomy. After enduring so many #IBD surgeries, all I feel today is gratitude. Every day that my heart beats & pushes forward is & always will be a source of #gratitude. Read more #ontheblog: ownyourcrohns.com/my-very-own-in…

🚨 New Expert Opinion Alert 🧬 GC-AI in IBD: Underrecognized but Not Uncommon 🩺 ~1 in 4 IBD patients may develop adrenal insufficiency after stopping systemic steroids. 🔍 New expert statements urge early recognition, proper testing, and safe replacement. ✅ Know the red flags

How do you overcome a deep-seated fear of medication? And what do you do when standard dietary advice doesn't fit your culture? In this clip, Tina Tina Aswani-Omprakash, MPH explains how the South Asian IBD Alliance SAIA is tackling these exact challenges.

We are proud to host an amazing panel discussion to demystify #Biologics & #Biosimilars in #IBD! Join Tauseef Ali MD, FACG AGAF FACP 🇺🇸 moderating #HarshadJoshi 🇮🇳, Aisha Memon 🇺🇸 & #TanyaManohar 🇮🇳 who share how biologics & biosimilars work! Tune in on Sat, 19 Jul live: facebook.com/saia.org 🎉

Outpatient management of partial small bowel obstruction with oral palatable elemental diet. This could be a paradigm shift in how we manage recurrent pSBO and avoid hospitalizations. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Our scoping review on use of Wearable technologies in #IBD now published in CGH Suggests increasing role in - early prediction of flares - cytokine/biomarker measurement in sweat - future clinical trials doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.…

New study questions antispasmodics in IBD: they may not ease pain and could lead to worse outcomes, including more opioid use. Time to rethink reflex prescribing. Focus on treating the cause, not just the symptom. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ap…

SAIA is delighted to welcome Dr. Tiffany Taft, PsyD to our Board of Directors 💥 Learn more about Tiffany here: southasianibd.org/saias-leadersh… We are proud to grow as an organization and serve the #IBD community across the world 🙏🏾

🎙️ Honored to present at the Annual APPNA Meeting in Dallas – July 12, 2025! I had the opportunity to speak on “Inflammatory Bowel Disease for Primary Care Providers”—highlighting early diagnosis, multidisciplinary collaboration, and common pitfalls in outpatient management. 💡

🎥 LIVE this Saturday! Join us for an engaging session: "Demystifying Biosimilars & Biologics in IBD" – where expert voices meet real patient stories. 📅 July 19th, 2025 🕗 8 am PST | 11 am EST | 4 pm BST | 8:30 pm IST 📍 Streaming LIVE at facebook.com/saia.org 🇵🇰 Pakistan

We are thrilled to introduce and welcome Dr. Shehzad Saeed to our Board of Directors! To learn more about Dr. Saeed: southasianibd.org/saias-leadersh… SAIA is looking forward to having Dr. Saeed join our team as we continue to build and serve the #IBD community across the 🌏