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:
- BiliCam, a Smartphone App, Screens Newborns for Jaundice
- Dr. Amy Shriver on Child Development and School Readiness
- Use of Laboratory Markers in Addition to Symptoms for Diagnosis of IBD in Children
- Study Finds Parental Strategies to Overcome Bedwetting Ineffective
- Predicting Risk of Serious Bacterial Infections in Febrile Children in the ER
- Positive Parenting May Protect Against the Effects of Neighborhood Social Disadvantage on Brain Development
- Cannabidiol for Drug-Resistant Seizures in Dravet Syndrome
- Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders According to Period of Prenatal Antidepressant Exposure
- Rhinovirus Wheezing Illness in Early Childhood Associated With the Development of Childhood Asthma
- Trends in Medical and Nonmedical Use of Prescription Opioids Among US Adolescents