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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:
- 2023 Top Story in Primary Care: Eye-Tracking–Based Measurement of Social Visual Engagement Compared With Expert Clinical Diagnosis of Autism
- Factors Predicting Secondary Respiratory Morbidity After Early-Life Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infections
- Support for the Use of a New Cutoff Value to Define a Positive Urine Culture Result in Young Children
- Exercise and Insulin Resistance Markers in Children and Adolescents With Excess Weight
- Treatment Failure and Adverse Events After Amoxicillin–Clavulanate vs Amoxicillin Therapy for Pediatric Acute Sinusitis
- Eye-Tracking–Based Measurement of Social Visual Engagement Compared With Expert Clinical Diagnosis of Autism
- Approach to Managing Youth-Onset Type 2 Diabetes
- Association of Screen Time at Age 1 Year With Communication and Problem-Solving Developmental Delay at 2 and 4 Years
- Effect of a Mediterranean Diet or Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction During Pregnancy on Child Neurodevelopment
- Awareness, Beliefs, and Practices Regarding Early Peanut Introduction Among Parents and Caregivers