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:
- Antibiotic Prescribing During Pediatric Direct-to-Consumer Telemedicine Visits
- Effect of Wearable Digital Intervention for Improving Socialization in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
- The Association of the Mediterranean Diet During Pregnancy With Longitudinal BMI Trajectories and Cardiometabolic Risk in Early Childhood
- Different Growth Patterns Persist at 24 Months of Age in Formula-Fed Infants Randomized to Consume a Meat- or Dairy-Based Complementary Diet From 5 to 12 Months of Age
- Composition and Variation of the Human Milk Microbiota Are Influenced by Maternal and Early-Life Factors
- Association of the Youth-Nominated Support Team Intervention for Suicidal Adolescents With 11- to 14-Year Mortality Outcomes
- Associations of Neighborhood-Level Social Determinants of Health With Bacterial Infections in Young, Febrile Infants
- Spontaneous Resolution and Timing of Intervention in Congenital Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction
- Social Media Use and Adolescent Mental Health
- Correlation of Childhood Social–Emotional Functioning at School Entry With Early-Onset Mental Health Conditions