Stanley J. Szefler MD

Dr. Szefler is the Principal Investigator for the Denver site of the NHLBI AsthmaNet-Pediatrics Section and Co-Investigator for the NIAID Inner-City Asthma Consortium (ICAC) II. He is also a Co-Director for the NIEHS/EPA Childhood Environmental Health Center Grant at National Jewish Health and the University of Colorado Denver. For the past eight years, he has directed a school-based asthma program for the Denver Public School system funded by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the Caring for Colorado Foundation, the McCormick Foundation and Glaxo Smith Kline. This program seeks to identify those most significantly affected by asthma and to direct those children to state of the art asthma care. Dr. Szefler is looking forward to expanding his school-centered asthma program as well as establishing stronger communication links between schools and health care providers.