Tyra Bryant-Stephens MD, is a board-certified pediatrician in clinical primary care practice for 30 years. She is nationally recognized for her work in community-driven, evidence-based research in asthma disparities. She founded the Community Asthma Prevention Program (CAPP) of The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) in 1997, an asthma program that utilizes community health workers and residents to implement asthma interventions in underserved, poorly-resourced inner-city communities. During the past 27 years, she has led many studies/projects to help improve parents’ management of children’s asthma symptoms using community participatory research methodology through funding from various federal agencies and foundations.
Her team has made over 20,000 home-based asthma visits, taught thousands of caregivers in community classes, and has cared for hundreds of children. She has provided site-based asthma trainings for hundreds of primary care providers. For thirteen years under her leadership, the CAPP Collaborative has convened an annual conference, Fighting Asthma Disparities, which is attended by local, state, and national stakeholders. She coordinates asthma care education annually for primary care physicians in the CHOP CARE network. She has served on local and national advisory boards and currently serves on the Board of Health for Philadelphia. She became CHOP’s Chief Health Equity Officer in 2021. Bryant-Stephens received her MD from Bowman Gray School of Medicine and completed her residency in Pediatrics at the Medical College of Georgia.