Dr. Stanley Szefler is currently the Research Medical Director and Director of the Pediatric Asthma Research Program in the Breathing Institute of the Pediatric Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine Section and Interim Medical Director for the Research Institute at Children’s Hospital Colorado. He is also a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, Anschutz Medical Campus.

Dr. Szefler’s major contributions are directed toward the individualized use of asthma therapy.  He has identified biomarkers and asthma characteristics that are associated with asthma exacerbations and response to asthma therapy. He is the Co-Principal Investigator for the Denver site of the NHLBI PrecISE Network that is focused on precision medicine for severe asthma.

For the past fifteen years, he has directed a school-centered asthma program (AsthmaCOMP) funded by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Cancer, Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Disease Program for the State of Colorado. This program identifies students most significantly affected by asthma and then establishes lines of communication between schools, primary care physicians, and specialists to assure that these children have consistent medical care.