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:
- Lower-Dose Zinc for Childhood Diarrhea
- Primary Prevention of Asthma
- Maternal Perinatal Mental Health Effects on Offspring Development
- SSRIs May Increase Risk of T2D in Young Patients
- US Parents' Plans Regarding School Attendance for Their Children in Fall 2020
- Primary Care Autism Screening and Later Autism Diagnosis
- Clinical Characteristics of Patients With Confirmed Acute Flaccid Myelitis
- Group A Streptococcus Detection in the Saliva of Children With Pharyngitis Using the Cobas Liat PCR System
- Estimation of Viral Aerosol Emissions From Simulated Individuals With Asymptomatic to Moderate COVID-19
- Statewide School Closure and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality in the US