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:
- A Review of the Benefits and Challenges Associated With Breastfeeding
- Effect of Early Caffeine Exposure on Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Preterm Infants
- Risk Stratification of Febrile Infants ≤60 Days Old With Invasive Bacterial Infection
- Major Causes of Death in Children and Adolescents in the US
- USPSTF: Interventions to Prevent Child Maltreatment
- Increase in Acute Flaccid Myelitis—United States, 2018
- Health Impacts of Parental Migration on Left-Behind Children and Adolescents
- Prevalence of Eating Disorders Among US Children Aged 9 to 10 Years
- Outcomes of Cardiac Screening in Adolescent Soccer Players
- 2018 Top Stories in Primary Care: Supporting Transgender Youth