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:
- Assessing Video Game Vision Syndrome in Children
- Clinical Examination Features of Pediatric Pneumonia
- Treatment in US Children and Adolescents With ADHD
- 2017 Top Stories in Primary Care: Synthesizing the Old and the New in a Deliberate Approach to Diagnosis
- Age of Childhood Metabolic Syndrome Onset Predicts Adult Health Risks
- Beliefs Regarding Developmental Delay Among Low-Income African American and Hispanic Mothers
- Postpartum Depression Screening in Well-Child Care Associated With Improved Maternal Outcomes
- The Heidelberg Appendicitis Score Predicts Perforated Appendicitis in Children
- Rapid Targeted Genomics in Critically Ill Newborns
- Parents' Perspectives of Primary Care Management of Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Children