WOCNext 2019

Chanelle Bishop-Gilyard
Pediatric Psychologist
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia


Chanelle T. Bishop-Gilyard, Psy.D. is a Staff Psychologist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and an Instructor of Psychology in Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her B.S. and M.S. in Health Psychology from Saint Joseph’s University. Dr. Bishop-Gilyard also received her M.A. and Psy.D. in Clinical Psychology from LaSalle University. She completed a clinical internship at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC)inpediatric and child clinical psychology. Dr. Bishop-Gilyard completed a postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric obesity at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Dr. Bishop-Gilyard has expertise in pediatric obesity. Her research interests include obesity-related health disparities including ethnic differences in weight loss. She is also interested in innovative treatment approaches to weight loss induction and maintenance. She has worked on several federally-funded obesity projects gaining experience in behavioral health assessments, and the development and implementation of adolescent obesity treatments (i.e. family-based lifestyle modification programs, meal replacements, pharmacotherapy, and bariatric surgery). She has experience in tailoring lifestyle modification programs for health disparity populations (i.e. urban African-American, Latino, and rural Caucasian youth). In addition, she has collaborated with primary care centers and trained multidisciplinary providers (i.e. physicians, nurses, dietitians, therapists) in the assessment and treatment of pediatric obesity. Currently, she conducts pre-operative evaluations for bariatric surgery candidates and runs face-to-face and online support group meetings for bariatric pre and postop patients.

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