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:
- Transcranial Doppler Screening for Children With Sickle Cell Anemia
- Urgent Care and Pediatric Visits to the Emergency Department
- Poverty and Child Health in the United States
- Dr. Benard Dreyer Talks About Child Poverty
- The Burden of Child Poverty in the United States
- Improving Infant Motor Development With Iron Supplementation
- The Mental Health of Socially Transitioned Transgender Children
- Flint Drinking Water Crisis: Elevated Blood Lead Levels Among the Disadvantaged
- Endocrine Effects of Inhaled Corticosteroids in Children
- Gastroesophageal Reflux in Infants and Children