Dipesh Navsaria MPH, MSLIS, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health; Clinical Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, School of Human Ecology, UW-Madison, Madison, WisconsinDr. Dipesh Navsaria is a pediatrician working in the public interest. He blends the roles of physician, occasional children's librarian, educator, public health professional, and child health advocate. With graduate degrees in public health, children's librarianship, physician assistant studies, and medicine, he brings a unique combination of interests and experience together.
Committed to understanding how basic science can translate into busy primary-care settings via population health concepts and policy initiatives, Dr. Navsaria aims to educate the next generation of those who work with children and families in realizing how their professional roles include being involved in larger concepts of social policy and how they may affect the cognitive and socioemotional development of children for their future benefit.
Disclosures
- Consulting pediatrician: Pediatrics Supporting Parents Initiative
- Board of directors: Reach Out and Read National Center
- Founding medical director: Reach Out and Read Wisconsin
- Board of directors: Parents as Teachers
Recent Contributions to PracticeUpdate:
- Predictive Value of Clinician "Gestalt" in Pediatric CAP
- Influence of Structural Racism on Very Preterm Birth
- High-Dose Electronic Media Use in Five-Year-Olds
- Early and Repeated Screening Detects Autism Spectrum Disorder
- Short-Course Antimicrobial Therapy for Pediatric Community-Acquired Pneumonia
- Tobacco Exposures and Blood Pressure in US Children and Adolescents
- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Spanking Have Similar Associations With Early Behavior Problems
- Association Between PPI Use and Asthma Risk in Children
- The Revised WIC Food Package and Child Development
- Assessment of Maternal and Neonatal Cord Blood SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies and Placental Transfer Ratios