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The annual ATS Diversity Forum focuses on diversity within the fields of pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine and research. All ATS Members are invited to attend this event to find inspiration and valuable career insights. This year’s speaker Tyra Byrant-Stephens, MD, is a board-certified pediatrician. She has been in clinical primary care practice for 30 years. She is nationally recognized for her work in community-driven, evidence-based research in asthma and environmental asthma triggers. In 1997, she founded the Community Asthma Prevention Program (CAPP) of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), an asthma program that utilizes community health workers and residents to implement asthma interventions in underserved, poorly resourced, inner-city communities.

During the past 22 years, she has led many studies and projects to help improve parents’ management of children’s asthma symptoms using community participatory research methodology funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Pennsylvania Department of Health, and Merck Childhood Asthma Network. For 13 years under her leadership, the CAPP Collaborative has convened an annual conference, Fighting Asthma Disparities, which is attended by local, state, and national stakeholders.

Dr. Bryant-Stephens is a founding member of the Pennsylvania Asthma Partnership and past member of the U.Ss. EPA Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee. 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 recently became the inaugural Sr. Director for CHOP’s Center for Health Equity.

The Underrepresented Trainee Development Scholarship, formerly the Minority Trainee Development Scholarships (MTDS), will recognize trainees who are members of underrepresented minority groups will be presented at this forum. Underrepresented Trainee Development Scholarship recipients are selected for the quality of the science in their submitted abstract, among other criteria.

The 2024 Diversity Fellowship recipients will also be presented during the forum. These fellowships are designed to support the efforts of senior fellows, post-doctoral students, or junior faculty with research, clinical and policy endeavors to advance health equity for patients with respiratory disease, critical care illness or injury, and sleep disordered breathing.

The Diversity Forum is organized and presented by the ATS Membership Committee and will be hosted by its Chair Meshell Johnson, MD and Vice Chair Alexandra Noel, PhD. The Underrepresented Trainee Development Scholarships are supported by the American Thoracic Society.

ATS Thanks Actelion Pharmaceuticals US, Inc., a Janssen Pharmaceutical Company of Johnson & Johnson for their support of the Diversity Forum”