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:
- Acute Heart Failure in Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children During the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
- Characteristics and Outcomes of Children With COVID-19 Infection Admitted to US and Canadian Pediatric ICUs
- Cognitive Impairment in School-Aged Children Born Very Prematurely
- Common Infant Symptoms and Cow's Milk Allergy
- Association of Public Health Interventions With the Epidemiology of the COVID-19
- Antibiotic Use and Outcomes in Children With Suspected Pneumonia
- Epidemiology of Pediatric Patients With COVID-19 in China
- SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Children
- Experimentally Manipulating Social Media Abstinence
- Using Finger Puppets in the Primary Care Setting to Support Caregivers Talking With Their Infants